2013 Directors: Kathy Eason, Ron Fryer, Susie Hale, & Dawn Hinsvark
"This was my daughter's comment as she was leaving: I'd rather be here than with my soccer team! Meaning - camp was the most important thing in her life!" -
"This is the highlight of our daughter's year. We get as much value planning, preparing for, and discussing after the event as the event itself. It is a shared conversation that brings us closer together and makes some conversations possible that otherwise would be very difficult for us to fall into."
"My daughter has a sense of belonging-- stronger here than anywhere else!"
FOUR DAYS A SUMMER....IMPACT FOR LIFE!
Chinese Heritage Camp was one of the first camps in the country exclusively created for families with children adopted from China. It is one of the 11 camps facilitated by the highly respected Heritage Camps for Adoptive Families. Chinese Heritage Camp offers programs for infants through high school. This will be the 15th year families from across the country meet in Colorado to gain a deeper understanding of the Chinese culture and share their adoption stories. This camp regularly fills up quickly with a waiting list, and the camp has grown along with Chinese adoptees, now boasting a large group of high school campers and our first wave of adopted Chinese counselors!
Our theme for 2013 Chinese Heritage camp is "China: Land of Invention". China is known for the Four Great Inventions - paper making, the compass, gunpowder, and printing. But, did you know that many of the things we all use on a daily basis, were also invented in China? From tea to noodles, chopsticks to forks, dominoes to playing cards and Mahjong, China has been a source of inventions for thousands of years. Come fly a kite, create shadow puppets, navigate with a compass, or make paper. We will learn and explore all this and more as we journey to China: Land of Invention.
We also spend time at camp exploring the unique gifts and challenges that come with our mostly transracial adoptive families. We realize that as your children grow, they will be dealing with issues faced by any child of color, no matter their country of birth. At our camp, they are with a sea of families who are like theirs, and with children who are in the majority for a few days. Though we celebrate and highlight the birth country of our campers, the similarities of being adopted children of color in mostly transracial families is what really bonds the children, and their families so immediately at our camp
We hope to see you at camp this summer. For further information, please contact us. Registration for this year's camp opens on March 8, 2013 at 4:00 p.m. MST. There is ALWAYS a waiting list, so get registered early!
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