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Program

The activities we offer include our summer program, Camp Sojourner, and year-round activities such nature hikes, college tours, service projects, and our Teen Leadership Institute.

Camp Sojourner

Camp Sojourner is an overnight camp for girls ages 8-14, with 15-17 year old girls working as junior counselors. Our camp program focuses on team building, leadership development, self-expression through creative arts, and appreciation of the natural environment.

Camp Sojourner 2012 dates are from Monday, July 30 through Saturday, August 4.

Our summer program is located in the Pocono Mountains at the New Jersey School of Conservation, about two and a half hours away from Philadelphia (www.csam.montclair.edu/njsoc). Buses take girls up to the camp at the beginning of the session and bring them home at the end of the session.

Activities at camp include: swimming, boating, hiking, team-building, campfires, archery, and creative arts such as singing, dancing, drawing, painting, drumming, acting, sewing, and wood-working. We eat family style in a large dining hall, and sleep in modern wood cabins.

Girls in cabin

Year-Round Activities

We take monthly trips with campers of all ages, to local parks and farms, colleges and universities. This year we have formed a partnership with Bartram’s Garden in Southwest Philadelphia, and are working with the Urban Nutrition Initiative to help clear brush, build garden plots, and learn about the environmental impact of growing our own food.

Teen Leadership Institute

We believe that in order for young people to grow as leaders, they must be given authentic opportunities to act as leaders.

That is why GLC includes youth as a core part of our Advisory Board, and gives teen leaders the opportunity to participate in decision-making and plan camp activities. Our Teen Leadership Institute meets once a week and works together with Camp Sojourner staff to plan activities and projects for the rest of our camp community, while developing leadership skills such as public speaking, facilitation, and goal setting.

Service

We believe that being a leader means both taking charge of your own life and working to make the world a better place. Each year our campers choose an area of focus and complete service projects related to those areas. This year, we are working with Bartram’s Garden and the Urban Nutrition Initiative to to help clear brush, build garden plots, and learn about the environmental impact of growing our own food.  In past years, we have worked in partnership with Women Organized Against Rape (WOAR) and the Clean Air Council of Philadelphia.