Edmonton’s Whitemud Equine Learning Centre Association is currently closed because of public health restrictions put in place due to COVID-19.
In addition, specialized programming it offers to help those with disabilities is on hold, but management wants to change that.
Taya Nolan, 12, has a rare disease and has been visiting the centre with Little Bits Therapeutic Riding for several years. Before the pandemic, she and her mother would participate in weekly horse therapy sessions. “It’s been heartbreaking that she hasn’t had the opportunity.
Every Sunday, I think of it at two o’clock, I’m like, ‘Oh, there’s her lesson that’s supposed to be happening right now but it can’t,'” Jennifer said.