On Dec. 21, Spirit North visited Morris Williams Elementary School to teach the students about skiing.

Spirit North is a non-profit organization that raises funds to support sports and physical well-being for Indigenous youth. They visit various schools in the community to introduce kids to their sports programs, one of which is skiing.

Spirit North also teaches other sports programs such as cross-country running, mountain biking, canoeing, and land-based games and activities.

Chris Paulson, who is the project leader and ski coordinator for Spirit North in 亚洲天堂 Lake, believes that positive sports experiences can change children鈥檚 lives in a significant way.

Paulson feels that children should experience outdoor freedom by playing with sticks, rocks, skis and snowballs.

Paulson and his wife, Rachelle van Zanten, cooperated with Spirit North at 亚洲天堂 Lake six years ago. This year marks their sixth season.

Paulson said that Beckie Scott, Canada鈥檚 Olympic gold and silver medalist in cross-country skiing, first started Spirit North at Alberta in 2009.

Scott started it with the belief that sports can change lives, transform communities, inspire individuals, heal and teach.

With Spirit North, Paulson aims to provide more opportunities for children to participate in sports because he believes it is their fundamental human right.

Paulson recently learned that A鈥橬azoot [Scandinavian word] is another poetic name to define skis and traditional snowshoes from Jordan Williams, former B.C. Alpine Ski Team鈥檚 men鈥檚 head coach.

A鈥橬azoot means sliding snowshoes, and Paulson wants to use this term with Spirit North鈥檚 ski program as he finds it cool.

Morgan Paulson, Morris Williams Elementary School鈥檚 physical educator and ski coordinator, also provided ski instruction to a group of 10 students.

She assisted the children in selecting the appropriate ski boots for their skis and then taught them how to walk, glide, and get up from the snow when they fell.

Morgan said she enjoyed seeing her students smiling and having fun skiing in the snow.