District Foundation

It’s time now to think ”Kampers”.
Yes, that’s right, Kamping season is only a couple of months away and we at the New York District Kiwanis Foundation are getting ready to provide each Kamper a really great experience, the applications are going out and we are hoping for another great season, hopefully even better that last year.
We thank Governor Forbes for his commitment to our Kamp in making our foundation one of his Governor's projects along with the other three worthy foundations. This has already been showing rewards as we have gotten commitments from clubs that usually don’t commit and we have gotten commitments for more Kampers than usual from clubs that always send children. We thank you Gov. Forbes for your leadership and your commitment in taking care of our own.
As we do every year, we will have our Kamp opening work weekend to get as many of you to come up to the Kamp and help us get it ready for Kamping season, this year that weekend is May 12-14. Join us in whatever you can do to get our Kamp ready for the seniors and children to enjoy.
As I said many times, you don’t have to be a craftsman to come up and help, we need many chores to be done painting, raking leaves, general clean up and many more however if you do have certain skills, please come up and I’m sure that there will be many items that fall in your particular skill set.
As always, our wish list is on our website for you to look at or download, this contains a list of many items that we sometimes do not pay particular attention to but still have to go out and purchase during the year. You can look at it and perhaps there may be items that you can provide or get donated to us; perhaps someone you know sells these item and might want to ask them about donating some to the Kamp. Whichever way we get them, it is less money we have to spend and more money we can put towards maintaining the Kamp to provide a much better experience for the children that attend.
I would like to thank Lou Cazzetta, Lt. Gov.-Designate of the Metropolitan Division, who once again will be furnishing all the medical supplies on the wish list, he has been doing this for at least the past eight years, Thank You Lou!!.
For the third consecutive year we have not raised tuition or busing for the Kampers, it is still $450 for tuition and $150 for busing, although our cost is actually much more than that. We as a board have made a commitment to have as many children as we can come to Kamp and we will do whatever we can to underwrite the difference with fundraisers.
Thank you for your continuous support of Kamp Kiwanis.

Column Posted on Web Site April 29, 2016