My Nonprofit Reviews

My family has been close to two South Sudanese families whose fathers moved to Nashville in 2001 in a federal resettlement program. Several of their children wanted to go to summer camp, and we were in contact with a boy's camp and girl's camp in Minnesota. The camps put us in touch with the John Austin Cheley Foundation (A Thousand Summers) to apply for "camperships" so these children could attend camp. Six of the children have gone to camp, and the experience has changed their lives: they are more motivated in school, they are comfortable with many types of people, they have learned to value the environment. The camps have also benefited as some of these campers went on to become Counselors in Training and eventually summer counselors. The families still have young children who will one day also want to attend summer camp and we look forward to continuing the volunteer relationship we have with A Thousand Summers.