SONRISAS THERAPEUTIC RIDING, INC.

Mission Statement: To provide therapy to persons with physical, mental, or emotional challenges through a carefully structured program of equine (horse-related) activities.

Sonrisas, Spanish for "smiles", is a non-profit (501(c) (3)) organization that has been serving the Concho Valley since 1983. Currently Sonrisas provides therapeutic riding classes to approximately  seventy-five riders with physical, mental, or emotional challenges who range in age from three to over seventy.   In addition, another  twenty-five-plus high school students serve as volunteers while fulfilling educational goals--"Kids Helping Kids".

Classes are held twenty weeks out of the year (ten in the fall and ten in the spring) on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays at 9, 10 and 11 AM and 1 PM. Our location is 207 E. 50th St. next to the Lakeview Water Tower  (Northeast corner of the Stock Show Fairgrounds near the intersection of Grape Creek Road and 50th Street). Our 2008 spring riding semester begins on Tuesday, January 15 and runs on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays at the times shown above for ten weeks through  Thursday April 17.

Volunteers make our program happen. If you are at least fourteen years old and interested in helping people, please contact us at 325-949-4837 (office) or 325-653-0088 (riding site number) or e-mail us at sonrisas@wcc.net or join us for training on Monday, January 14 at  9:30 AM. If you are unable to make the training and want to volunteer call us to work out training options.

Our mailing address is: P.O. Box 1093, San Angelo, TX 76902