SUMMER CAMP
SUMMER CAMP
SUMMER CAMP
Who is WELCOME St Georges?
WELCOME St Georges is a small charity, based in the UK, ran by volunteers. The volunteers fund themselves to travel to Egypt for two weeks, every year, to run a summer camp for children who live and work on a garbage village in Cairo.
The charity's main purpose is to take approximately 100 children, who attend St Georges church, Mottamodia to a summer camp. The children live on the garbage village and work from dusk til dawn, sorting, by hand, the garbage that their fathers collect from the apartment blocks in the Cairo area.
Our Most Successful Facts
Install Running Toilets
We have helped the church install running toilets throughout.
Buy Educational Equipment
We have helped to buy supplies that are being used by the Sunday school.
Host The Summer Camp Every Year
We have hosted the summer camp every year since the charity was formed in 2010.
When the was charity formed
The charity was established in 2010 to build on a legacy of informal support that is centered on St Georges Church in the Garbage Village. Over the years volunteers from the UK have worked with the church, raising funds to build toilets, classrooms, buy educational materials and to run summer camps – but not one you would ever find in a glossy travel brochure.
The main purpose of the charity
Our primary goal is to work with the children who are the future of the Garbage Village. If we can help raise expectations, education and health, future generations will be better equipped to beat the poverty their parents know only too well.
Plans for the charity going forward
We hope our charity will grow and enable us to do even more in the future, but right now, our focus is to continue to provide an annual Summer Camp for as many children as we can fund. For many, this is the only holiday they will ever experience and has changed the lives of literally hundreds of children who have attended camp in the past. Many of the Egyptian youth leaders who now support the UK team at camp started out as participants themselves.
How anyone can help the charity grow
If you would like to support the charity, there are many ways in which you can get involved. You could help spread the word about what we do by sharing this website, you could donate items that we need to help us with activities, you could volunteer to join us at one of our camps or you could make a donation to help us fund this project.
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