Camp Goodtimes Build Project
Donation protected
Its that time of year again! We have re-activated this page to help raise funds to cover material costs for the annual Camp Goodtimes Build Project!
For the past six years, a group of woodshop students from Rogers High School in Puyallup, WA have been using their time and skills to help kids affected by cancer experience the joy of building something with their own hands.
Each year the students make up 100 wooden kits, organize and pack all the parts, then go to camp for two full days to help 100 campers assemble their very own musical instrument or toy.
We need your help to make sure this project continues to happen!
Camp Goodtimes is a free weeklong camp for children affected by cancer. It’s hard to overstate the wonderful things it does, but let me borrow the words of a longtime volunteer counselor, Drew Dresdner.
“Camp Goodtimes is a place where children who have had their childhoods taken from them by chemotherapy and radiation treatments get to be children again. Not cancer patients, not cancer survivors, not siblings, but children. It is a place where cancer is pushed, ever so briefly, into the background and where children get to shine.”
Sitting cross-legged on the floor working one-on-one with a younger camper, they look like some caring yet talented big brother or big sister, and both the campers and the high school students love it.
Over the years the kids have made ukuleles, xylophones, a travel dulcimer that looks like a guitar, and even a dinosaur shaped periscope.
This year's camp theme is The Great Outdoors, so the students designed lanterns that the kids can decorate themselves and use as a nightlight when they get home.
We are hoping to raise enough money to buy materials so the students at Roger's High School can continue this wonderful project. It varies, but they usually spend about $1,500.00 per year on materials. All the labor and use of tools is donated.
Can you help us keep this fine project going with a donation to buy parts and wood?
Thank you!
The Camp Goodtimes Building Team
** Due to the privacy of our campers, we have had to edit pictures with them in it. Trust us when we say that the smiles that were overlayed are very representational of the ones they had on their faces!
For the past six years, a group of woodshop students from Rogers High School in Puyallup, WA have been using their time and skills to help kids affected by cancer experience the joy of building something with their own hands.
Each year the students make up 100 wooden kits, organize and pack all the parts, then go to camp for two full days to help 100 campers assemble their very own musical instrument or toy.
We need your help to make sure this project continues to happen!
Camp Goodtimes is a free weeklong camp for children affected by cancer. It’s hard to overstate the wonderful things it does, but let me borrow the words of a longtime volunteer counselor, Drew Dresdner.
“Camp Goodtimes is a place where children who have had their childhoods taken from them by chemotherapy and radiation treatments get to be children again. Not cancer patients, not cancer survivors, not siblings, but children. It is a place where cancer is pushed, ever so briefly, into the background and where children get to shine.”
Sitting cross-legged on the floor working one-on-one with a younger camper, they look like some caring yet talented big brother or big sister, and both the campers and the high school students love it.
Over the years the kids have made ukuleles, xylophones, a travel dulcimer that looks like a guitar, and even a dinosaur shaped periscope.
This year's camp theme is The Great Outdoors, so the students designed lanterns that the kids can decorate themselves and use as a nightlight when they get home.
We are hoping to raise enough money to buy materials so the students at Roger's High School can continue this wonderful project. It varies, but they usually spend about $1,500.00 per year on materials. All the labor and use of tools is donated.
Can you help us keep this fine project going with a donation to buy parts and wood?
Thank you!
The Camp Goodtimes Building Team
** Due to the privacy of our campers, we have had to edit pictures with them in it. Trust us when we say that the smiles that were overlayed are very representational of the ones they had on their faces!
Organizer
Michael Dresdner
Organizer
Puyallup, WA