November 9, 2013
Harrison, Mandy, Sean and I have been spending the last several months putting together Camp GLOW and developing Camp GROW. Camp GLOW (Girls Ruling Our World) and GROW (Guys Reshaping Our World) Vava’u is a three night sleep away camp for students in form three (like 8 th grade) who display academic excellence and leadership potential. The camps cover diverse topics including women’s empowerment, women’s health, the rights of women and children, goal setting, public speaking, conflict resolution, sexual harassment and domestic abuse, nutrition, and environmental responsibility. The camps emphasize the importance of being informed, active, independent, and responsible citizens, and include an element of community service. Camp GLOW is an international PC project that a lot of different countries do but we thought it would be good to develop a guys version so that we can reach the young men of Tonga and teach them about women’s rights as well as tertiary opportunities in employment and education. Please let me know if you would like more information about the camp or if you would like to help with a donation. Thanks to a lot of people in America we have already filled our grant and raised over 7,000 dollars. We are looking to raise another 2,000 here in Vava’u through school fundraisers and a big kalapu (kava night) to be held later this month.
This past Saturday we took our counselors out on a day sail. A very nice couple who own a sail boat here, and normally run charters, donated a sail to our camp. We had such a great time with our counselors teaching them funny ice breaker games, goal setting and bonding in general. It was so cool to be able to grant these kids the opportunity to do something that they may never have been able to do otherwise. My best friend from village is one of our counselors and so it was extra rad for me to be able to share the experience with a close friend.
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