Volunteer teaches kids with disabilities how to snowboard

WATCH: Susan Hay reports on an organization that is teaching children and young adults with disabilities to ski and snowboard.

TORONTO-   Ontario Track 3 is a volunteer non-profit ski organization that teaches children and youth with disabilities to down hill ski and snowboard.

Haven Kramer is one of the volunteer assistant instructor at Ontario Track 3, who teaches kids how to snowboard. But she also used to be a participant, and is considered as a success story.

“Kids that come to the program all have disabilities. But we would like to think of then as enabling them and giving them confidence and learning a skill set,” according to David Velikonja, the executive director of Ontario Track 3

Kramer, who has been diagnosed with cerebral palsy, gained confidence and learned how to snowboard by participating in the program. Now he teaches other kids with disabilities to snowboard.

One of his students, Jack, who is non-verbal was able to achieve his goal of skiing solo.

“We didn’t think he would ever be able to actually do it, so for us, it actually makes me feel emotional it first happen,” Adina Wace, Jack’s mom said.

“Nine times out of ten, especially when it comes to learning stuff, you may fall down. But that tenth time that you get back up it’s a whole different scenario because its just going down the hill literally without any help and feeling that accomplishment of being able to do something on your own and saying I did it,” Kramer said.