Kids Day Out is a global Rotary event organised for the second Wednesday of June every year.  In Cork, the four Rotary clubs combine to provide a day out for about 70 children from the Cope Foundation Schools.  Cope caters for children with a wide variety of disabilities from mild to profound.  The school chooses the children and their minders for the Day Out and there is normally one minder for every two children. 

The children and minders are transported by bus from school to Musgrave Park. There they are fed and watered, entertained, meet the Lord Mayor and motor cycle gardai, and pick out their car and (Rotary) driver for the rest of the day. The cars festooned with balloons and streamers, escorted by the gardai, take the children to a play centre for a couple of hours and from there to McDonalds for lunch. After lunch they are driven back to school with their goodies bags. 

This brief description does not do justice to the day which is always a most satisfying one for all concerned, children, minders and Rotarians.  Each of the latter will have a story to tell and a feeling of contentment that comes from being involved in something worthwhile.