This summer camp offers refuge for NYC's record-high youth homeless population
, a longtime summer camp is offering these young New Yorkers a chance to temporarily leave behind the trauma of congregate living — to just be kids., now in its 40th year, will welcome about 360 children who are living in shelters or were formerly homeless to its annual summer camp about 45 miles north of the city. There, kids between 7 and 15 years old spend about two weeks swimming, biking, cooking, dancing and playing.
For the last two summers, the number of children whom the camp serves has grown, and migrant children now make up about half of the campers, according to program leadersChildren come to one of three sessions that last 16 days and can return every summer, even after they move out of homeless shelters. Some come back to work as counselors.
“Maybe they can go back a little stronger to deal with whatever they're having to deal with back home,” she said. Prince Duke, 13, was in a cooking class, trying to make a tomato sauce, so that he could cook at home for his family.
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