More than $150, 000 is going to help send low-income youths to camp this year.
For Tim Horton’s Camp Day this year, Southeastern New Brunswick raised a a little over $158, 000.
Thank you! Your #CampDay support helped us raise $13.7 million to build brighter futures for more than 20,000 kids! pic.twitter.com/bEQ0PhK5bW
— Tim Hortons (@TimHortons) June 7, 2017
Spokesperson Erin Thomson says money is used to give disadvantaged youths a summer camping experience to help teach them essential life skills, “There are seven camps across North America, so there are six across Canada and one down in the United States, in Kentucky. The kids could be going to any one of the camps. The kids will have the chance to work on relationship building, physical and emotional well-being, and they do that through a number of different activities. They include archery, and biking and they also have the optional of doing a wilderness experience with hiking or canoeing. The Tim Horton’s Children’s Foundation Camp experience really helps them to find some of the their strengths, develop some of these critical life skills and find things they can use to be successful.”
Across the country this year, Camp Day raised a record breaking $13.7 million this year.