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Summer Brightens for Some Kids of New York Troops

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Monday, July 14, 2008   

New York, NY — Several dozen young New Yorkers whose parents are at war soon will get a time-out from tension. Today, the Sierra Club announces it will provide a $1.5 million grant to send children of National Guard soldiers deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan to summer camp free of charge; some 2,000 of the soldiers are New Yorkers.

Brittany McKee, Sierra Club's military representative, says that since 2007, when the Sierra Club began teaming up with the Armed Services YMCA to provide the camp, 4,000 kids have been able to go to camp nationwide.

"It's not just nature walks and campfires. They do a lot of team-building exercises so kids learn to depend on each other. That's especially important for a lot of kids who don't live on a military base-—these children often don't have a lot of friends who can really relate to having a parent deployed."

Beverly Keating, director of Family Programs for the National Guard, agrees that attending camp is a great opportunity for National Guard families because they have a smaller support system than families who live on military bases. Those with parents serving in Iraq or Afghanistan will get first crack at the funds.

"These children don't have as much of an opportunity, because they are scattered all over the state, to be with other children that share the same types of things: It's a unique challenge to the child of a military person."

Sixty New York kids will go to camp in August courtesy of the Sierra Club. Military families can sign up at the Armed Services YMCA website, www.asymca.org, where additional information about the funding is available.



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