SUMMER IS ALMOST HERE!
The summer months are difficult for Olde Forge families. About 300 children under the age of 18 live in the
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, about 98% of the elementary children (per data
from Rocky Run Elementary and Stafford Schools) 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 is tailored to address these needs and more.
The program has three goals:
1) Provide creative and educational opportunities for youth to use their 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.
Would you like to help us change lives? 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.
Could you:
· 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)
· Provide one day’s lunch for summer camp? (75 kid-friendly lunches)
· 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 camp?
· Be a summer camp volunteer?
PLANS FOR SUMMER 2009
SUMMER JUNCTION--day camp within walking distance of the neighborhood. 10 sessions
Tuesdays/Thursdays, July 14-Aug 15; 50-75 children per session; lunch served.
The summer camp theme is Romans 12:2, CEV: Don’t be like the people of this world,
but let God change the way you think. Then you will know how to do everything that is good
and pleasing to Him.”
ONE DAY FIELD TRIPS: 10-15 trips; 12 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 22-26 Salem Baptist VBS, June 22-26 Brazilian Soccer Clinic, Aug 3-6 Stafford Crossing’s Sports Camp, Aug 10-14 Stafford Sheriff’s Office Football Camp, July 27-31
SCHOOL SUPPLY DISTRIBUTION—for 200 or more students across Planning District 16
Estimated Expenses for Summer Program 2009: $ 11,475