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Feelgood news of the day. A group of SUNY Courtland students raised money, flew down, and implemented a project that improved the usabilty and aesthetics of the Belize Zoo's entrance, including making it wheelchair accessible. The best little zoo in the world just got better. Thanks, SUNY!
The video about the project: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy_PC2iaWLY
"Perhaps the zoo’s biggest fan, since childhood Jerome Flores has loved visiting its rescued carnival menagerie and newer acquisitions. He eventually came to work for the zoo. But more recently, the middle-aged man was seriously injured in a fall at a different job and now must use a wheelchair to get around... And during spring break in March, Vicki Wilkins and the nine undergraduate and three graduate students enrolled in her Special Topics in Recreation and Leisure Studies course flew to the tiny, sparsely populated country on the northeast coast of Central America to put the donations they had raised to good use, making the entrance walkway to the national zoo reachable by anyone. They also adapted newly constructed restrooms outside the zoo’s entrance, dug holes to plant landscaping and visual barrier poles and marked driving slots for the vehicles of visitors with restricted mobility."
