Holiday camps
A lack of government funding forces Lipnitza School-Orphanage to shut during school holidays. For Lipnitza’s abandoned and disadvantaged children the ‘holidays’ mean life on the streets or back in poverty stricken communities that struggle to provide just one meal per day. Each summer and winter The Trussell Trust runs holiday camps where Lipnitza’s most vulnerable children are safe and loved.
Summer Camp
Every summer a team of young people from the UK help us to run a summer camp at the Black Sea for 40 of Lipnitza’s most at-risk children. The youth team run activities, games and craft as well as Sunday School.
Last year sisters Nedka, 7, and Nushka, 9, arrived for summer camp with nothing at all. They have no parents and had been living on the streets begging for a living before Lipnitza took them in. Without summer camp these sisters would have been forced back onto the streets. Instead, Nedka and Nushka played on the beach, made new friends and received love and care that they had not had for years.
We urgently need more funds to help fund the 2012 summer camp, click here to help give an abandoned child a safe, happy holiday, thank you!
Get your friends to support the Summer Camp through our "Hand a Kid a Holiday" campaign. Download e-flyer here. And here is a supporting poster.
Check out the summer camp 2011 blog
Join 2012 summer camp youth team
Sorry but all places on youth team are now filled. We are developing two other options for the summer including working with disabled children and joining with an American team in Bulgaria.Please get in touch if you are interested in either of these or if you would like to be placed on our reserve list for the main Summer Camp.
Click here to download the summer camp brochure
Click here to download the application forms
Click here to download reference forms
For further details, or for budget breakdown contact Rich Parsons 01722 427113 or email richard.parsons@trusselltrust.org
Winter Camp
Many of the children at Lipnitza Orphanage-School come from poverty-stricken Roma communities.
With temperatures reaching -20 degrees, the lack of heating and scarce food in Roma communities is a serious danger to children’s health. In many cases these children are neglected or abused too.
For children with no home to go to, or for those afraid to go home, the only option is weeks on the streets in freezing temperatures, at the mercy of conditions and those that would exploit them.
Our winter camp is run by staff from Lipnitza itself, keeping children safe and helping them to relax around and feel valued by the adults that they see each day.