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Remember the excitement when you went to camp as a kid? Many of
us recall happy memories. We wanted to go again, and again.
Some of us wanted to live there - forever.
Camp SeaStar is
being built to serve children in the Royal Family Kids Camp
camping program. Expanded school schedules make it
increasingly difficult to rent camp grounds. Our children
have unique housing needs due to abuse they have experienced.
Children we serve are primarily in the foster care system. They
became wards of the state due to parental incarceration, abuse,
neglect and abandonment.
Children
placed in foster care often feel unloved, unwanted, rejected,
and have crippling self-esteem. They assume blame for what has happened
and is happening to them.
All our
little campers (6 to 11 years old) are wounded children. Big
people who are supposed to love and care for them , instead
callously abused and neglected them.
“Yesterday,
while
you
were sleeping, 3 children died of abuse.”*
1,200 survived another day.* *
These survivors are the children we love and
serve.
*Speech by P.E. Quinn Ph.D. 2005, RFKC
annual meeting. Statistics from National Center on Child Abuse and
Neglect.
**National Center on Child
Abuse and Neglect.
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