Program receives $4,000

The Pasco Foundation has made a $4,000 donation to A Touch of Understanding, a hands-on disability awareness program for students in Placer, Sacramento, El Dorado and Yolo counties.

The program helps children understand people with disabilities by using wheelchairs, writing and reading their names in Braille, handling orthotic and prosthetic devices, using canes and experiencing the frustration of a learning disability through a mirror exercise.

A Touch of Understanding plans to use the donation to help purchase a new equipment trailer, according to a news release.

For details about A Touch of Understanding, visit the Web's http://www.touchofunderstanding.org/ or call (916) 791-4146.

- Compiled by Linda Beymer