Peace Camp 2003

FOURTEENTH ANNUAL
FLORIDA YOUTH PEACE CAMP

Sponsored by the
Florida Coalition for Peace & Justice

Held at
The Teaching Farm
near Gainesville, FL

Panther Camp
Ages 15 - 20
June 22 - June 28

Manatee Camp
Ages 10 - 14
July 13 - July 19

The Florida Coalition for Peace & Justice is now accepting registrations for our 14th Annual Florida Youth Peace Camps. This year’s theme will be "Building a Peaceful World Together."

We are happy to announce that Geraldine Vaurigaud will be our camp Director this summer. She will use an innovative teaching approach known as the “low ropes course” to teach teambuilding and cooperative skills in many of our workshops.

If you know of a young person who could benefit from Peace Camp, or if you would like to help support the Peace Camp program either financially or as a volunteer, please get in touch with us.

FCPJ
C/O Peace Camp 2003
PO Box 336
Graham, Florida 32042
(352) 468-3295
fcpj@juno.com
www.fcpj.org

     At Peace Camp we are a multi-cultural gathering of youth and adults who come together to find ways in which our lives can make a difference. We learn the joy and benefit of serving each other in order to enrich our week-long Peace Camp community and our lifelong global community. We learn to use creative nonviolent methods to achieve justice and equity as an outcome of the way we live our lives.

     Peace Camp activities include, drama & entertainment, arts & crafts, swimming & canoeing, sports & cooperative games, and interactive workshops on an assortment of exciting and important topics. At previous camps we have built birdhouses, learned bicycle repair, explored bat ecology and wildlife care. We learn conflict resolution skills, peer mediation and consensus decision-making.

GOALS OF PEACE CAMP
  • To create a cooperative community based on mutual respect
  • To develop skills for conflict resolution
  • To experience the inter-connectedness of all living things
  • To appreciate Earth’s natural cycles
  • To inspire each other to make positive changes in our world

THE FACILITIES

     Both camps are held at our Teaching Farm in Hampton, 18 miles Northeast of Gainesville. We will be tent camping under the stars in a pecan grove, surrounded by pine forest and joined by a wealth of wildlife. Our Peace Education Center offers an escape from the heat, a large kitchen, hot showers, and a meeting hall for our dance and talent-less show.

     We will swim and canoe in nearby lakes, do gardening, and make landscape pavers, go tubing down the Ichetucknee River, build a picnic table, explore the pine forest, and much, much more.

 

THE CAMPS


Panther Camp
This camp is geared toward youth ages 15 to 20. Youth who attend this camp may have the opportunity to volunteer as counselors for the younger camp.
Camp dates: June 22 - June 28


Manatee Camp
This camp is designed for campers age 10-14.
Camp dates: July 13 - July 19

 

Peace Camp 2001
To see pictures from our 12th Annual peace camp, click here.

 

REGISTRATION FEES

     We believe Peace Camp is an important event and want to assure that youth at all income levels are given the opportunity to attend. We have made every effort to keep the cost as low as possible and have set the rates on a sliding scale. PLEASE pay what you can best afford. Cost includes camp use, food, group health insurance, supplies and participation in all activities. Some need-based scholarships are available.

Price: $175-$300 per camper.