Another Wheaton Playground Relocated to Haiti

The following is a press release from the Wheaton Park District:

The Wheaton Park District has once again partnered with Kids Around the World to send the playground equipment, originally located at Central Park, to Haiti. Beginning a few years ago in 2010 by donating the former playground at Northside Park, the Wheaton Park District is excited to see another playground rebuilt to benefit hundreds of kids in Haiti. 

Kids Around the World was founded in 1994 with the goal to provide safe play equipment for children that found themselves in situations where it was difficult to just be a "kid".  So often children find themselves as victims of situations out of their control, they become victims of economic stress, victims of political injustice, victims of natural disasters, and worst of all, victims of war. It was for these children that Kids Around the World began. Kids Around the World partners with many organizations and foundations to install the playgrounds in these devastated countries around the world. 

The mission statement of the Wheaton Park District is to enrich the quality of community life through a diversity of healthy leisure pursuits and heightened appreciation for our natural world. Mike Benard, Executive Director of the Wheaton Park District acknowledged, “The Wheaton Park District is proud to donate this playground equipment to the children of Haiti. If we can make the lives of these children, who have been so devastated by these earthquakes a little brighter, then we have enriched the quality of life in a remote part of our world.”

For more information, please contact Margie Wilhelmi at 630-510-4984 or at mwilhelmi@wheatonparks.org.