"TWI FOR THE CHILDREN"
Summer Camps To Children in the Balkans
 

 

   During the summer of 2010, TWI has scheduled camps in Serbia, Kosovo, Bosnia and Montenegro.   Additionally, TWI has coordinated a Leadership Training Workshop in Montenegro in conjunction with the summer camp at the Montenegro Orphanage. 

Important Links:
>  Preparation for trip     > Camp Itinerary    > Camp Story      > Typical Camp Day        > Camp Journal

 

Be certain to check our photo page for photographs as they arrive.

 

PROJECT SCOPE:

TWI for the Children takes one and two-day camps to children  in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) and in Montenegro.  The purpose of our camps is to bring love and fun to children in the Balkans. 

 

Summer opportunities furnished by the "Camp to Kids" program provide  children with a day of fun, learning, lunch and recreation to fulfill our goals of bringing love and fun to children in the Balkans. Our project provides a  positive image of America and demonstrates the desire of the American people to help the people of the Balkans.  Providing resources such as sports and educational equipment to these schools and orphanages materially assist these organizations, and shows the teachers and caregivers new methods to teach their students though crafts, song, dance, stories and games. 

 

The "Camps to Kids" project teaches strong moral values of love, reconciliation, leadership, competition, geography and language that are  shared throughout their villages.

 

 OBJECTIVES:

The objectives of the "Camps to Kids" Project are to:

  •     Bring a day of fun to children in all areas of the Balkans. 

  •      Teach the values of love,  friendship, self-worth and  educational concepts through crafts, games, stories, song and dance that teach language, sport competition, geography and art. 

  •     Provide a platform to show the goodness of the America people and an opportunity to learn about American culture. 

  •     Provide outreach to all ethnic groups by taking "Camps to Kids" to Muslim, Croat, Serb and Kosovar communities. Provide educational and sport equipment to orphanages  and village schools as part of the "Camps to Kids"   project.  

  •     Include "children with special needs" as an important part of our "Camps to Kids" project .  

 

 

Goals:

                 (1) Teach values of playing and working in harmony  with others regardless  of   different  ethnic  and  religious backgrounds by partnering  American volunteers and  Balkan adults and teenagers  to make up the Camp Leadership Team to implement the camp program as a team effort.

              (2) Provide skills  that  will  help  the children as  they  move  into ‘adulthood" .

 


Preparations that each volunteer should make prior to going to the Balkans ( preparations  before leaving for  the Balkans). 

Volunteers have concerns for their safety when going to the Balkans. We prepared a letter addressing these concerns that will help when making your decision to volunteer (a letter to  team volunteers)

 

 

  Click Here: to read about our camps in 2009. 

 

 

  These camps have become more expensive each year. With the exchange rate with the Euro, our dollars buy less. This year our summer  Camps to kids project will cost more than $25,000.  

 

 

Please help us to continue these Projects in the Balkans:  Send your Tax-Deductible donation to TWI for the Children, 5929 Queenston Street, Springfield, VA 22152 or by providing a donation by credit card:

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