14 Bike Giveaway

On Valentine’s day, 2015, 14 Adaptive bikes were given away to 14 disabled children. Many of them had never ridden a bike before. CBS 8, in San Diego, covered our 14 bike giveaway; It was an amazing experience for the kids. The video above is the CBS post coverage...

Los Angeles County Employee Charitable Giving Campaign

In 2013 Variety of Southern California earned a coveted spot as one of only seven charities in the State invited to participate in the Los Angeles County Employee Charitable Giving Campaign. We thank the employees of LA County for their support as we strive to help...

Mobility Story: Millie

Millie is a 6 year old girl who loves Disney Princesses. She has a mild intellectual disability, cerebral palsy and epilepsy. Her father works hard to support his wife and 4 children on a very modest annual income. Almost all of the state therapy programs that Millie...

Equestrian Therapy

Variety of Southern CA supports organizations that provide Equestrian Therapy to children with disabilities. The therapeutic benefits of the horse were recognized as early as 460 BC. The three dimensional gait of a horse is similar to the gait of a human and cannot be...

Mobility Story: Aidan

Aidan was born at only 25 weeks with total body cerebral palsy and developmental delays. Aidan’s father is a Long Beach Police officer who was shot in the line of duty in 2006. That year Aidan was hospitalized as well for aspiration pneumonia. Aidan’s doctor believed...
Education Story: Scholarships

Education Story: Scholarships

Growing up in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of East Los Angeles was challenging for Elizabeth, but she never allowed poverty and gang violence to become obstacles. In her 2010 Variety scholarship application, Elizabeth wrote “Growing up in poverty has never been...

Health Care Story: Baby Saory

Saory was a tiny little girl. Arriving unexpectedly at only 26 weeks, she weighed 1 lb., 10 oz. and had a hole in her heart. For the first few months of her life, baby Saory’s home was the St. Francis Medical Center neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) in a Giraffe...

Mobility Story: Kavya

Kavya is a sweet little 4 year old girl who is healthy, but her brain MRI shows “delay myelination”. She has made some gains but exhibits severe developmental delays. Kavya has extremely low muscle tone which causes her to fall down a lot while walking. However with...