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A Message From John Hills

Dear Family, Friends, and Loved Ones, For the fifth straight year, I am thankful to be volunteering for UCLA UniCamp this summer. UniCamp is UCLA's official student charity and have been serving the youth of the Los Angeles area for over 80 years. Through this organization, we serve kids from the greater Los Angeles area that otherwise wouldn't be able to afford a normal camp experience and we fundraise money to keep the cost of our camp affordable. Every year, we bring up over 1,000 campers to UniCamp and we have over 350 UCLA student volunteers that train, fundraise, and donate their time to help impact the lives of these great kids. This year, I am involved in a part of UniCamp geared towards high-school aged kids called W.A.L.L or Wilderness Adventure in Leadership and Learning. The program will place teen campers on a 26 mile hike to the highest peak in southern California. The program aims to build leadership by challenging both the mind and body in a tough 4 day hike (the other 4 days will be spent on site pre-briefing and debriefing about the hike). Overall, the entire week will focus heavily on leadership programming and personal growth for the campers. As stated above, all the volunteers fundraise to make sure that as many kids as possible are able to attend our camp. My personal fundraising goal for this year is $2015 and I'm hoping that you would be willing to help me not only reach my goal, but surpass it! Your donation and sponsorship will go toward providing our campers with food, board, transportation, and hiking equipment (packs, sleeping bags, tents, etc.), as well as facilities fees (electricity, sewage, trash removal, etc.) Donations of all sizes are greatly appreciated and anything you can give will go towards these kids having a great experience at camp this summer. I have posted a link below to my personal account page, where you can donate via credit card, or you can send cash or checks to the address below. Please contact me if you have any questions or concerns at all! Every little bit helps so don’t feel that any donation is too small! Thank you everyone for all of your help and support!

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UCLA UniCamp is the official student charity of the University of California, Los Angeles. UniCamp operates as an independently funded non-profit organization linking the University with the community. Each year, UniCamp inspires nearly 1,000 children from underserved families to envision brighter futures by sending them, along with 400 student volunteers, to its residential outdoor summer camp.
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$60

S'mores around the campfire

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$80

Feed a camper for an entire camp session

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$160

Train a student volunteer counselor

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$250

Arts & crafts supplies for a week

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$400

Canoeing trip for a unit of 10 campers

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$800

Sponsor the full cost of sending a kid to camp for a week

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$1,200

Alpine Tower climbing experience for a session of camp

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$2,200

Round trip bus transportation for 50 kids to camp

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