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SUMMER is Here!

 

Can You Help?

 

·        Provide one day’s lunch for summer camp? (75 kid-friendly lunches) contact mcarroll.oldeforge@verizon.net

·       Be a Summer Junction camp volunteer on Tuesdays or Thursdays? (GET A VOLUNTEER APPLICATION)

·        Provide free passes or price of admission to a local venue so the children can take a field trip?  

·        Provide a craft or other activity for one or more days of Summer Junction camp?

·        Pray for Olde Forge staff and summer interns as they plan summer activities?

·        Pray for the children in Olde Forge?

·        Make a cash contribution towards the summer program? 

·        Sponsor the summer T-shirts?  (A $250 contribution will put your business name/logo on the shirts.)

·     Collect summer supplies? (trash bags, botted water, hand sanitizer, 9 oz cups, paper towels, paper lunch bags)

·     Collect school supplies? (composition books, colored pencils, bookbags, 3-ring binders, scissors, pencil sharpeners)

 

Call the office at 540-368-0081 or email Rnash.staffordjunction@verizon.net

 

WHY HELP?

About 300 children under the age of 18 live in the Olde Forge neighborhood, and play areas are extremely limited. 

With most parents working or lacking transportation, many youth are home all day long with nothing positive to do. 

In addition, the majority of students living in Olde Forge receive free or reduced meals during the school year.

When schools are closed for the summer, many families will not have the resources available to adequately address

these needs.

 

Olde Forge Junction’s summer program has three goals:

 

1) Provide creative and educational opportunities for children to grow and develop skils/talents.

2) Provide healthy food to bridge the nutrition gap created with the summer cessation of free school meals

3) Build leadership within the community through summer internships. 

 

Our summer program is offered free-of-charge to participants.   Even a small fee would make some of the programs

inaccessible to most of the Olde Forge families. You can help us change lives and transform the community.  All gifts are appreciated. Not all gifts are monetary. 

Please check below to see our plans and consider whether there are some ways you can partner with us

for the summer. 

 

PLANS FOR SUMMER 2010

 

SUMMER JUNCTION-- Day camp within walking distance of the neighborhood. 10 sessions

Tuesdays/Thursdays, July 13-Aug 12; 12:30 -2:30 pm; 50-75 children per session; lunch served. 

The summer camp theme is "Building Our Futures."  Each week of camp will have a specific "construction"

theme:  Laying the Foundation, Doing the Framework, Building the Walls, Raising the Roof.  Each day

the children will experience activities addressing four building blocks of a successful future:

FAITH, LOVE, KNOWLEDGE, and HEALTH.

 

ONE DAY FIELD TRIPS: 10-15 trips (local and out-of-town); 10-20 children per trip; trips include food,

admission, and activities

 

       COORDINATION WITH AND TRANSPORTATION TO LOCAL CAMPS/EXPERIENCES INCLUDING:

  • Ripkin Foundation/Stafford Sheriff’s Office Badges for Baseball Camp, June 21-25

  • Salem Baptist VBS, June 28-July 2
  • Riverside Theater Camp, July 26-30 
  • Brazilian Soccer Clinic, August 16-20 

  • Stafford Crossing’s Sports Camp, August 16-20

  • Curtis Park Camp, August 9-13 

 

       SCHOOL SUPPLY DISTRIBUTION—for 200 or more students across Planning District 16 (which includes

       Fredericksburg City, Stafford, Spotsylvania, King George, and Caroline)  

 

    Estimated Expenses for Summer Program 2010:  $ 23, 412