Reliable Transportation Creates Extracurricular Opportunities for Native Youth in Taos

For several years, Working On Wellness (WOW) collaborated with other Taos-based organizations to piece together transportation for Native youth participating in their recreational programming, creating access to activities like skill-building clinics for winter sports and mountain biking. However, affordable, reliable transit remained the organization’s greatest barrier to serving more Native youth who could benefit from their extracurricular programs.

So, two tribal members—a Taos Pueblo Sports Alliance team member and a Field Representative for U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich—reached out to LOR with an idea: purchase a used bus that would increase the number of youth WOW could reliably transport to rec sporting events and enable the organization to expand transportation services to include access to activities like tutoring.

LOR’s support will cover the cost of purchasing and branding the used bus, opening up more opportunities for extracurricular exploration for Native youth in the Taos area.