Due to lack of funds the children who were at the French camp last year have been told that this year there will be no camp
Some of the kids at last year's camp.
We would like to change this by fund raising for the money to hold the camp, and Ian and Sue will help with the organising and helping workers at Hannah to run the camp.
The cost per child per day is nine UK pounds. There will be twenty four children and they will stay for five days making the total cost of the camp £1080.
This may sound a lot of money, and for most of us it is.... BUT if 120 people give £9 that would pay for the camp.
To sponsor a child for the full five days the cost would be £45.
If you cannot give the full nine pounds but would like to help, any donation would be appreciated, especially by the children.
You can give by either sending a UK cheque/postal order to the charity's main address (P.O. Box 219, Bishop Auckland, DL14 4BB, United Kingdom) or you can give online via Paypal. You don't need a Paypal account to give, you can give using your credit card or Switch card. When donating via this method please insert "Camp appeal" in the purpose box and fill in the amount you would like to give.
UPDATE.
As of today, 1st June, we have reached a total of £757. We now only need another £323.
Please consider helping us get to our target, and help these children have their holiday.
Thank you in advance for your gift and generosity.
CAMP REVIEW.
The camp we helped to lead at the end if July was a great success. Thank you to all who donated towards the costs – we were overwhelmed by your generous response, and delighted that almost the full amount came in through gifts from J.A.R.S.’ supporters, the remainder being made up from J.A.R.S.’ existing funds. The week started with thirty-one children and ended with thirty-seven (don’t ask!!), mainly aged thirteen or fourteen, but with a few well below the average, and one or two just above.
Sue told the story of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, one of C.S. Lewis’s Narnian Chronicles, two instalments per day, and at the end of the week the children acted out their favourite part of the story – this was a great success, and the three teams made a brilliant job of the sketches, spending nine hours preparing not only the scripts and drama, but costumes, props and make-up!! The children all understood the meaning of the story, and one group even explained this as part of their performance.
Bogdana, a local art teacher, took two sessions a day with the children, and games and activities filled the rest of the week quite nicely. Weather-wise, we only had one evening of rain, the rest of the time the sun shone and the children were outside the whole time.
When asked to write their impressions of the camp, their responses included such comments as: “It was like a house of friendship”, “I don’t want to go home”, “It was the best time of my life so far”!! Please continue to pray for these children, also for Bogdana as she wants to keep in touch with Ian and Sue and had some interesting discussions with them during the camp.
I will get some photos of the camp sorted and update this page very soon.
The children and leaders attending the camp this year.
I have included the photo to the right of everyone at the camp.
I have updated the web page on the children's camps and have included more photos there including another camp Ian and Sue were involved in. To view got to the Camp page here.
Thank you to you all who contributed in any way to the camp, it was appreciated by everyone.