Camp helps kids impacted by Los Angeles area wildfires
Project: Camping in Los Angeles may look like a typical kids camp, from craftsmanship to skipping rope, but there is more to do.
Every child in the camp received The recent wildfire. Like 9-year-old Rose McCabe altadena The school was burned to the ground, leaving only the sign of still standing.
“There was a fire and the whole school was burned down. My friend Olivia’s school was burned down. My sister’s friend’s school was burned down.”
It made her “sorry” she said, “I really don’t know what will happen. What are we going to do?”
Fourth-year student Skarbek said her house survived and some of her friends’ houses were destroyed.
“Sometimes we keep going, sometimes we talk about it,” she said.
Project: Camps operate across the country and are realized in a community hit by natural disasters within a few days.
“Our whole program is traumatic, meaning these kids have had a great time running around and having a traumatic care beneath it,” said Ozzie Barron, co-founder and deputy director of the camp. “So the program is designed to help these kids deal with these kids in a natural way. They handle it through games. They handle it by talking to each other.”
Rose’s mother, Karen McCabe, has been bringing her two daughters to the camp, thanks for this.
“I know what they need is normal games, they need other kids,” she said. “When I heard about this, I was like, ‘Kids will be fine.'”
