Every year, East End Cooperative Ministry’s Summer Day Camp provides summer fun and learning to more than 200 at-risk kids, ages 5-16. In addition to traditional “camp” activities, like swimming, sports, arts and crafts, EECM’s camp helps equip students to navigate the challenges in their lives by teaching them valuable life skills.
Each week of camp is focused around a theme, all of which support the overall theme of camp for the year. This year’s theme was “Step Up Your Game to Achieve Your Destiny!” Here’s an overview of Day Camp 2009.
Week 1 -- Faith
This week, we learned about what it means to be a child who lives by faith. The development of faith is critical for combating the community cultural feelings of apathy and hopelessness which are becoming a normative outlook among urban youth today.
Week 2 -- Courage
The theme for week two was courage. Having courage to stand for one’s values and beliefs is critical to succeed in today’s urban youth culture. Campers learned the importance of being courageous and never giving up on their destiny.
Find out the rest of our weekly themes, and discover what exciting field trips were part of Day Camp 2009.
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