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Properly Serving a Changing Population

A recent Today show piece touted that Caucasian children won’t comprise the majority of children born in the U.S. within 5 or 6 years. This story isn’t news to us at our multicultural summer camp, which has been emphasizing serving who our population actually is for many years. It’s interesting now that is increasingly in the public eye. It hasn’t been news for a while. From the 2010 US census, non-Hispanic white children ages 5 to 17 (or roughly “camp age”) comprise only about 55.5% of that segment. “Minority” children […]

Empowerment Via Language

I had a prospective parent contact me earlier today, asking about the potential comfort level for her 12 year old daughter. They live in Costa Rica and her daughter speaks only Spanish with rudimentary English abilities. The daughter is excited to get fully immersed in a supportive, English-only environment to maximize her English-speaking. Because our summer camp program has a multicultural, empowerment focus, I felt comfortable relating to the mom that we have had campers of a variety of initial English-language comfort. A cogent example was when we had two […]

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“Our kids have been growing, learning, and enjoying themselves at Camp Kupugani since 2007. The dedicated and diverse leadership and staff provide a safe, encouraging, well-rounded, and valuable experience for campers. Campers learn from and with each other how to value differences, create meaningful connections and thrive.”

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“This camp is amazing and exceeded my expectations. I went for a Mother / Daughter Weekend to reconnect with my daughter and we did that for sure. Thank you Camp Kupugani! My daughter loved it so much we immediately signed up for the 2-week girls-only session for the following summer.”

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