Earlier this year we raised over $100,000 to send deserving kids...

Earlier this year we raised over $100,000 to send deserving kids from Bedford-Stuyvesant to summer camp. Yesterday drove 2 hours north of the city, and took a tour of the New York YMCA Sleepaway Camp. (The destination for many of the kids we supported.) Pictured below were my tour guides— Alexa and Emerald. 

Even though it rained during my entire tour, everybody seemed to be having a great time. There was archery, kickball, swimming, volleyball, ceramics, painting, watersports, and hundreds of tacos. 

As told to me by the executive director, Wheaton Griffin: “Our goal is to provide our campers with the same camp experience available to wealthy children. Most of our campers are here on scholarships. But they have just as much fun as kids at expensive camps. We don’t have a lot of the fancy stuff here,” he said. “And we don’t need it, either.”