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 **THIS INITIATIVE HAS BEEN COMPLETED FUNDED. IF YOU WERE INTERESTED IN DONATING TO THIS CAMP, YOUR CONTRIBUTION CAN STILL BE MADE HERE AND IT WILL BE APPLIED TO ASSIST ALL OF THE ARETE YOUTH INITIATIVES (see www.areteyouth.org for more details).
The 3rd Annual Roma Day Camp for the Naiden Gerov Schools in Plovdiv, Bulgaria will allow students to interact with people from various backgrounds, acquire life skills education, and the opportunity to be active and creative. During a span of 3 weeks, 80 students, 12 teachers and 15 American volunteers will be united to fulfill and assist some of the many areas of need for the overwhelmingly marginalized Turkish Roma minority group, which makes up the majority of the schools’ student body and the neighborhood surrounding the schools.
Some of the needs and issues addressed through these camps are constructive use of time, self esteem and identity awareness, problem solving and leadership skills, sex education, human trafficking, and alcohol and drug abuse.
The three separate camps are organized into three separate weeks in order to appropriately cover grades 3 to 11. The first two camps will take place at one of the two schools. The first camp will commence the first Monday after the last day of classes for the primary school. The same will happen for the second camp, though it will take place at the secondary school. Both weeks the students will come to their appropriate school in the morning and meet with volunteers and the teachers. The days will be split into time segments for recreational and team building games both outdoor and indoor, arts, crafts, face painting, t-shirt designing and a time for informative sessions. We will meet from 9am to 3pm.
For the third camp we will take the 9-11th graders out of Plovdiv to a camping area called Zdravets. It is approximately 40 minutes outside of the center of Plovdiv. This will give the youth an opportunity to go outside of their neighborhood and the city of Plovdiv into a remote location where they can gain a different perspective on their community, their selves, and nature. This gives us the chance that we can work more in depth and comfortably in team building skills and life skills sessions without interruption. These grades are the most vulnerable for dropouts and teen pregnancy and parenthood. The few that do go on to finish their 12th year they will be faced with the possibility of attempting to enter a new role in their society. This can be a great time to have a captive and comfortable audience to discuss these issues and decisions.
In order to reach our goals and accomplish the activities planned for these students, we need 2,456.40 BGN equaling $1,697.22 US Dollars.
The budget breaks down as follows:
Labor - $276.00
Materials & Supplies - $536.29
Travel & Per Diem - $1,174.62
Total - $2,172.29
Community Contribution - $475.07
Amount requested $1,697.22 US Dollars in order to accomplish the goals and activities planned for these students.
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Total Donations: $1,722
Goal: $1,697
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