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16 years ago

I was contacted by a staff member of Tim Horton's Camp for Kids. Tim Horton's is Canada's largest coffee chain. They have 6 camps throughout Canada and one in Kentucky where groups under-priveleged kids each spend 10 days throughout the summer. NOT your ordinary camp!

The decided they wanted to set up a vermicomposting bin for their cafeteria food scraps and teach the kids about it. All about "giving back." The kids are taught not to waste food, and the food waste is composted and the compost is used on their gardens and flowerbeds.

So I was invited to go and do a workshop with them.

I took hubby and he took pictures. We had an absolute ball.

The kids involved with this were 17 and 18. They were the most polite, warmest, friendliest kids we've ever met. Not a bad weed among them, and the majority come from broken homes. They welcomed me and made us feel like part of the family. We were so touched by the organization and what they are doing for these kids. They'll have memories to last them a lifetime.

One of the Bunkhouses!

The Workshop:

Preparing the food:

Setting the bin in place:

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mariend
16 years ago
Thank you for sharing. We love to have soup/sandwitches/AND donuts at Tim Horton. It is great to see businesses like this do such wonderful work with youth.
glenda_al
16 years ago
awesome

Is that you standing under the porch, talking, in the second picture? Looks like a chalkboard
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maddielee
16 years ago
Thank you for doing this....
ML
Toni S
16 years ago
It's great your teaching these kids about composting. Thanks for giving your time to kids that really need a good role model.
Georgysmom
16 years ago
How neat is that!
lindyluwho
16 years ago
What a wonderful thing to do for these kids.

Linda
foggyj
16 years ago
Great information for the kids. That's something they can use.
I'll bet it was gratifying for you too.
Pieonear
16 years ago
That sounds like a lot of fun. Glad you enjoyed it and helped so many others.
alisande
16 years ago
What a wonderful idea! Great of you to get involved.
kacram
16 years ago
That is really neato, dippy!
very cool!
petaloid
16 years ago
As a teacher I have seen students at all levels get so much out of any gardening-related projects we've done with them.

What a great learning experience!
taigen_gw
16 years ago
How great that you got to do this and so very kind of you to do so.
chloecat
16 years ago
That's a great thing, that camp!

Wonderful photos! Thanks for sharing! :-)
nicole__
16 years ago
Sounds like a worthwhile project! Glad you were involved!
Granlan_TX
16 years ago
Great camp....such a useful project for the camp and the kids.

Kudos to you, Jasdip! :)
Jasdip
Original Author
16 years ago
We learned a lot about the Camp. It is designed for kids who wouldn't financially be able to go. Each coffee shop recommends a boy and girl in their town who would benefit.
The very first camp, years ago was very rustic, camping, etc. Then the Board of Directors at the Foundation suggested making the camp a luxurious, state of the art setting, where they would be treated like guests and live like kings, and have memories that would last forever.

Well! There are greenhouses here, a computer lab, a several thousand dollar observatory with a humongous telescope to see the stars and planets (the roof opens electronically), a climbing wall, archery, volleyball, canoeing, fishing, 4 bunkhouses like the one pictured and gorgeous manicured treed grounds.
More than one kid told me how much they loved it there and one girl is trying to be a Leader there for next year.

Get this, we were invited guests at lunch yesterday. (where the meals are all nutritious, and family style; the kids can eat as much as they want...they never want to see a kid go hungry).

Anyway, the guys in our group had some of the younger boys sitting with them, "so they could teach them to treat women with respect." Some of these kids come from rough homes, and they belittle females. We happened to sit with the girls and the Leader was saying that when she left one of the bunkhouses yesterday the language that came out of one of the young girls, directed at her was pretty rough. So the older ones teach the younger ones that people are to be treated nicely and with respect. How very cool is that.
The older ones we were with, had respect in spades.
bee0hio
16 years ago
You're "paying it forward" ... how good of you. It looks like an awesome camp & I'll bet those kids will never forget the experience. TFS
jannie
16 years ago
Thanks for sharing photos.
patti43
16 years ago
What an honor for you! If that first picture is a "bunkhouse" lead me to it :-)
chisue
16 years ago
Beautiful camp. These immersion tactics do work! Thank you for volunteering with the kids.

May I 'preach' for a moment?

I'd like to see tax dollars go to support *voluntary* boarding schools for underprivileged kids. There would be rules and standards; there would be holidays, but no unsupervised family visitation; slackers would be expelled -- same set up as private boarding schools but without the frills.

My DIL teaches 8th Grade math in the inner city. The schools already feed the kids breakfast, lunch and a take-home snack. School is their only safe place, but the doors are locked at 3 p.m. The vast majority of these kids are un-parented. They go 'home' to a gang shooting gallery. Many can't sleep at night because they live in a day-for-night culture of drugs and poverty. They drop out of school just as their nearly illiterate mothers did and live the only kind of life they know.

Why wouldn't this 'camp' atmosphere succeed as a year 'round school? We'll never change the cycle without doing more for kids.
Cherryfizz
16 years ago
What a wonderful thing to have them ask you to teach the kids. I would have loved to have been there if I was a kid.

Anne
dotmom
16 years ago
We need more programs like this.....and .....more people like you. Good going, were proud of you.
grinch_gut
16 years ago
Love this...we do need more programs like this...God Bless the Tim Horten family!

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