Our Mission: To offer camps to adults with developmental disabilities, enhancing their lives through recreation, socialization and life skills education.
CampBlueSkies.org
SUMMER 2019
GEORGIA ON OUR MIND
Smiles from our recent sessions at Camp Twin Lakes, our Camp Partner in Georgia
Help us celebrate 10 years of fun, friendships and memories Inspired by my son Brent’s love of summer camp, I started Camp Blue Skies in 2009 for adults with developmental disabilities who often become isolated as they get older.
And now it’s time to celebrate! Our 10th Anniversary Jubilee kicks off Sept. 26-27 with our Hooked on Camp Fishing Derby. What else do we have planned?
Fast forward 10 years to see what Camp Blue Skies has become. “Camp is as much fun as Christmas!” said one camper. If you’ve attended or volunteered, I’m sure you have experienced that sense of pure joy yourself.
Celebrations and special souvenirs during camp for campers and parents/ caregivers Blue Skies Bash Friend- & Fund-Raiser on Nov. 1 in Charlotte 10th Anniversary Jubilee celebration on Feb. 22 in Charlotte for volunteers, sponsors, and supporters
I am humbled by the hundreds of people – campers, parents, caregivers, volunteers, students, and donors – who have supported our work and who have become like family. I am overjoyed when I read cards and letters from campers about what camp means to them.
I fight to hold back tears when a parent or caregiver tells me how much they enjoyed a well-deserved, much-needed break, or when volunteers say that the experience changed their lives and increased their understanding of people with developmental disabilities. Thanks to all of you my dream has come true.
Hope to see you or hear from you as we commemorate this milestone!
Dick Sesler, Founder
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