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Updated: 9:27 PM Jun 18, 2009
Myron Rolle Camp
100 Foster kids, many who’ve never been part of a family or gone to camp, are spending the week learning leadership skills at the state’s National Guard Training Facility at Camp Blanding. The goal is to give these kids hope for the future.
Posted: 9:27 PM Jun 18, 2009

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100 Foster kids, many who’ve never been part of a family or gone to camp, are spending the week learning leadership skills at the state’s National Guard Training Facility at Camp Blanding. The goal is to give these kids hope for the future.

It is a week these foster kids may never forget.

“Yeah I want to do it again. It was awesome.”

There is rock climbing and a ropes course. And at every step: encouragement

“Yeah, I’m proud of myself.”

The toughest test. Repelling down a 50-foot wall. “If this doesn’t give you confidence, nothing will.”

The camp idea is the brain child of Children and Families Secretary George Sheldon.

“The fact that the kids can do this, really shows how you can overcome your fear.”

and there’s football star and scholar Myron Rolle.

“Regardless of if you don’t have a stable family, regardless of people pointing a finger at you and saying you can’t do it, that you’re not supposed to do it, that you’re going to be a statistic, that, you know, 90 percent of foster kids don’t make it, look that in the eye, push it aside, and continue to move forward. That’s what I’m hoping to instill.”

Myron’s message and the example he’s setting seems to be getting through to kids like James from West Palm Beach.

“It seems like he hasn’t had the perfect life either, so I could see how I could do the same things as him.”

In the end, some of these kids may still end up a statistic, but for others, they may just learn the leadership tools to be different.

The One Hundred fifty thousand dollar cost of the camp was covered by donations to the Myron Rolle Foundation and corporate
contributions.


Latest Comments

Posted by: karla Location: winter garden on Aug 2, 2010 at 01:47 PM

yo yo that week at that camp made me want to come back again i did not get to come this year in 2010 but i did go in 2009 and it was really cool you need to keep rocking and i found out tht u allways follow ur own foot step nobody else
Posted by: karla Location: winter garden on Aug 5, 2009 at 07:31 AM

i like this
Posted by: cheryl Location: new port richy on Jun 20, 2009 at 03:58 PM

yo yo yo what is going on i am doing well your camp changed my life from the person i was.you keep rockin on
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