Check Out These Three Summer Camps For Refugee Children

There are a lot of summer camps for children for their parents to choose from, with specific areas of focus such as music, arts and technology. These three summer camps in Canada and the United States are specially organized for refugee children.

Proactive Education for All Children's Enrichment, or PEACE will be running a summer camp in Ottawa, Canada. This summer camp is open to poor children, but CBC reported that most of the 60 summer camp spots have been taken by children who are Syrian refugees.

Summer camp participants will get to visit parks and go on trips to take part in free activities around Ottawa. As the refugee children take part in the camp, their parents could continue taking their English classes.

Child Refugees In Their First Summer Camp

Meanwhile, in Louisville, Kentucky in the United States, the Kentucky Refugee Ministries program is offering five weeks of summer camp learning for refugee children coming from Burma, Iraq and Somalia. Kentucky.com reported that more than 40 kindergartners to seventh-graders are learning English, science, math and art.

Just like the Syrian refugee children in Ottawa, Louisville's refugee children will also be going on trips and activities. Last year, there were reportedly around 600 refugee children in Louisville. The five-week summer camp is the first for these refugee children.

Summer Literacy Program For Child Refugees

Still in the United States, West Michigan is also one of the places that has a summer camp geared towards refugee children. West Michigan Refugee Educational and Cultural Center, a non-profit organization that works with refugee families, is having its Summer Literacy Program.

The summer camp is for over 65 refugee children in the state of Michigan. The Rapidian reported that the seven-week program will teach the refugee children English conversation, reading and skills.

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