This weekend I attended a meeting for a camp I will be participating in this summer called ABCamp. ABCamp is unique in that it encourages active citizenship through lessons on the arts, country studies, debate, and project planning.
Here is a description provided by Peace Corps:
ABCamp is a ten-day summer camp designed by two Ukrainian women and staffed with a mixture of Ukrainians and Peace Corps volunteers. Our purpose is to empower Ukrainian youth by holding daily lessons on debate, civic leadership, cross-cultural awareness, and project planning and implementation. Through these lessons, campers will improve their critical thinking and decision-making skills and develop an understanding that they are capable of making changes in their society. Campers will have the opportunity to improve their English skills as all lessons and activities will be conducted in English. Campers will also complete a social project in the city where the camp will be held in small groups, giving them the experience and knowledge needed to create projects on their own after the camp’s completion.
The school being used for the camp will provide rent and electricity and campers will also pay a fee that will cover their meals throughout the camp. The funds requested with this grant will cover materials for lessons and projects, and will also provide two campers with a scholarship who would otherwise not be able to attend camp.
This will be the second year of ABCamp. This camp has done much for the youth it involves, based on the accomplishments of last year’s campers. Past campers were involved in projects ranging from fundraisers for orphanages to holding day camps of their own to share the information they learned at ABC. We hope by continuing this camp, projects like these will continue to grow across Ukraine.
If you have the time, please donate to camp expenses HERE.
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