For 20 years, AccesSurf Hawaiʻi has worked to make the islands’ beaches and ocean more accessible to people with disabilities. You may have read about them in our previous coverage of the Adaptive World Tour, where the best adaptive surfers in the world compete at Queens in Waikīkī.

On November 7, the nonprofit will celebrate its 20th anniversary with a special Day at the Beach at White Plains Beach in Kalaeloa. The milestone coincides with the organization’s 20 for 20 campaign, which aims to raise $200,000 to fund 20 free Day at the Beach community programs.

It started small. In November 2006, a group of therapists, watermen and women, medical professionals, and adaptive athletes put on a single Day at the Beach with the goal of getting more people with disabilities into the water. That day turned into a program, and the program turned into a movement.…