Mission: To empower youth to make a difference in their communities, build leadership and team building skills and to improve their own, personal self-confidence.
Objectives and Activities:
- Each youth will participate in service learning projects
- Each youth will participate in workshops focusing on improving themselves and developing problem solving strategies
- Each youth will participate in team building and leadership activities
We had two great summer camps this year.
We started out at the Ontario Park were the kids finished staining the wooden boat and worked on painting a couple of the slides.
Afterwards we drove to the Ontario Dam and we talked about the history of Ontario.
Then we headed to Cook’s Bison Ranch. If you have never been, we highly recommend it. The kids truly enjoy being able to hand feed the bison treats and see the calves that were born this spring.
Next we traveled to Mongo to the Trading Post Outfitters. Where we took the kids canoeing. For most of the kids, they had never been canoeing so it was a new experience for them and we are happy to report that no canoes were tipped over on this trip!!!
For our second camp we started off with giving the Reason 4 Hope Bus a good ol’ scrub down, inside and out.
The kids learn fast the importance of communication and paying attention to what others are doing.
Afterwards, we took the kids to Dutch Creek Animal Farm. The kids really enjoyed this, especially the parrot area where they could walk through and hand feed the birds.
Next, we headed to Pokagon State Park where we visited the Nature Center and kids could pet a milk snake if they wanted. We then took a small hike to the artesian spring where the kids filled water bottles.
The kids then went to the lake to swim for a while before hamburgers and hotdogs for supper.
On the way back to the the Howe Fire Department we made a stop into Sweet Summers in Orland. Where we treated the kids to some wonderful handdipped ice cream.
