I did something cool this past week and thought I'd share.
It was a camp for kids that were/have been in the foster care system. There were lots of rules, background checks, ... This is a "Faith Based" organization called Royal Family Kids Camp, and they are really carefull that these kids don't endup in more bad situations. The kids ages were from around 6 to 11. It was at an "undisclosed location" in the mountains. where There was a lake, horses, cabins, ... all kinds of fun stuff. I do video projects so they had me be the "video guy". I produced a -/+10minute video everyday, of the previous day, and did all kinds of funny things like making people fly up out of the water or ride horses backwards and put it all to fun music. The kids loved it! It was good to remind them that they had fun.
The kids got new shoes, hand made quilts, Cool Shirts, and other stuff to call their own. It was a long hard tiring week, but it was neat to have so many "little friends", even if some of them did get "bad" again when it was about time to go back home. We told them that we loved'em and hoped that we would be able to see them again someday. I hear that many of them will have their stuff taken away from them by drunk/angry parents or jealous siblings, and I know that we didn't really "fix" anything, but It was sure nice to let them have a week of being a normal kid and not have to worry about things that many of them do in their "normal" day to day lives.
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