Eastern Greene Young Life

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Rebecca S

Bloomfield, IN

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The Problem

Eastern Greene High School in Greene County, Indiana is a school that is full of troubled teens. These kids don't only deal with everyday teenage issues, but they question what they will be eating for dinner. They wonder if there will ever be a day that they have health insurance. They question God's commitment to answering prayers, because they pray every day for their dad to stop drinking, but he never has. These kids don't know what it means to be a kid because they have had a job since they could drive in order to help pay the bills. They have never had an adequate role model because everyone they think they can depend on ends up in trouble from methamphetamine or other drug possession. Eastern Greene High School students are in desperate need. They need to know that there is something bigger and better to live for than every other destructive thing in their life. They need to know that there is a God who will love them unconditionally when everything around them seems to fade away. They need to know that their life was created for a purpose.

Plan of Action

Eastern Greene High School students do not come from affluent families or from an affluent community. In order to give these kids the chance of going to Young Life Camp, we must raise a substantial amount of money first. For each kid, Camp costs $500. We have reached out to neighboring communities for help with fundraisers. We currently help a text-book distributor by organizing books, we have set-up a Spring-Time Mulching Help Fundraiser, as well as bake sales, car washes, and pancake breakfasts. With all of these fund raising events, we still do not have the funds to get every kid to camp that wishes to go. In the past few years, more kids have expressed interest in attending Young Life camp, but do not have the money to pay for a small portion. We have projected to earn roughly $250 for each kid to get to camp, but that's only half of the cost.
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