Boys huddle after a soccer activity during the weeklong Experience Camp at Camps Equinunk and Blue Ridge in Equinunk, Pennsylvania, the United States. The free programme is for children who have lost a parent, sibling or caregiver, and involves traditional summer camp experiences as well as clinical grief activities.
A summer camp symphony of dribbling basketballs, screaming leaps into the spring-fed lake and bugle reveille floated into a pavilion where boys sat cross-legged in a circle, whispering to one another. Some wore white plastic masks, to hide the feelings their words conjured up. Some just stared at their shoes.
One small, skinny boy took a deep breath, then spoke. “Well, um, when my teachers and friends and family were all at my dad’s funeral, it felt really nice,” he said, pushing his glasses up his nose. “They were all really nice and helped me, and that felt good.”
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Just RM5 per month.
