PAL KIDS EXPLORE CAMPING AND SURVIVAL SKILLS IN NYC PARKS
Summer 2021: Youth ages 9-10 are participating in “Classroom Campground” at PAL’s summer day camps throughout the city. Campers are learning how to start a campfire, cook on a fire pit and build shelter in the great outdoors of New York City!!
Through a partnership with Earth Living Skills, an organization that teaches young people and adults about outdoor survival and the environment, PAL campers are getting a taste of the great outdoors and learning about the sacred order of survival – shelter, fire, water, food.
A variety of experiential programming helps participants grow familiar with the natural environment in their neighborhoods, gain new environmental skills, and build confidence and self-reliance. This July and August in Morningside Park, groups of campers will learn how to build a fire, cook on a fire pit, erect an outdoor shelter and explore survival skills. There will also be lessons indoors at two centers in the Bronx - Webster and New South Bronx.
