#yea camp

[canyonmoon72]

Please consider helping or at least reblog to get the word out! I want to go to this summer camp to learn skills to help combat homophobia and rape culture in my hometown. Anything at all helps!

[yeacamp]

Introducing: Mod Abby

Hello, My name is Abby and I went to YEA Camp for the animal rights NY 2015 session at Woodstock Farm Sanctuary. I mostly focus my activism towards animal rights. I am still working on doing more activism with my local animal rights/vegan community. My personal blog is @veganistaabby14 and I post animal rights stuff, inspiring things, and anything that I find adorable or resonates with me! I’m looking forward to being a moderator and running this blog with the other mods!

[yeacamp]

Introducing: Mod Ananya

Hi! I’m Mod Ananya, and I went to YEA camp in the 2015 N.Y. session at Woodstock Farm Sanctuary. I am working on my activism group called Youth United Making An Impact, and projects for the environment. YEA camp gave me the confidence to make a difference, and you will gain an incredible supportive community if you go!!

My personal blog is @cute-sparkly-things, and I mostly post random things, journal pictures, studyblr pictures, and inspirational hand lettering!

[compassionco]

Hey y'all! We have a new featured organization for March & April. 5% of every sale (not just profits) will be donated to YEA Camp. They're an all-vegan activist camp working to inspire and develop teens activists to become even more effective. Learn more about them at YEAcamp.org. 

Additionally, thanks to everyone who purchased a shirt, hoodie or scarf from us in Jan and Feb. Because of you we were able to donate $485 to Vegan Outreach! 

[vegansaurus]

Youth Empowered Action vegan summer camp? Sign me up!

… said my inner 13-year-old. When I first heard about Youth Empowered Action (YEA) camp, I started mentally packing my bags. All of the food is vegan, though the campers, kids ages 12 to 17, range from vegan to vegetarian to omnivorous and everywhere in between.

I got the skinny on YEA from founder and executive director Nora Kramer, and man, does she make me wish I could relive my teenage years. This is not your run-of-the-mill soggy-sandwich, papier-mâché-crafts, learn-to-swim camp. This camp is something incredibly special. Campers who attend YEA are on a mission to make effective change in one area of their choosing — factory farming, vegetarianism, the environment, gay rights, bullying, education. Talk about covering the spread! I don’t remember being half as passionate about anything more than how many inches of exposed leg I could get away with at that age.

At YEA, campers build skills to address the issues most vital to them. YEA covers four core areas of activism: knowledge, skills, confidence, and community. By the end of the weeklong stay, campers will have created an action plan to hopefully implement in the real world. YEA alumni have done some incredible things! Some campers have successfully petitioned for veg options at their schools; others started animal rights clubs, organized fundraisers for charities, created online stores for cruelty-free crafts, and gotten rid of dissection in their classrooms. It’s no wonder YEA camps are fostering the next generation of game-changers, law-makers, activists, environmentalists, and vegans. These kids are set up to succeed through confident and effective activism.

YEA camp is structured to allow every camper to tell their story and share their cause with their peers. By the end of camp, everyone has learned something new about the issues of their peers, and some even take steps to live a cruelty-free life once they leave camp. That, in addition to the vegan camp food, really makes YEA not only the perfect place for budding philanthropists, but for helping shape the future generations of our compassionate world.

A typical day of food at YEA camp looks like this:

Breakfast: French toast or pancakes, with cereal, soy milk, and fruit.

Lunch: veggie burgers, burritos, and sloppy Joes.

Dinner: pizza, pasta, vegan sushi, and a veggie tofu curry.

Dessert: brownies, chocolate chip cookies, and s’mores.

ALL VEGAN. You know I had to leave you with the goods.

These kids not only learn how to better care for the world and solve its problems, but, most importantly, they develop sense of community with their peers who are doing the same. And Nora, if you ever decide to start an adult YEA camp, sign me up!

You can find more info about YEA and their ongoing summer camps online. This year, there are sessions in Oregon, California, and Massachusetts; the California session began on Sunday, and Massachusetts’s begins August 9. If you have a young activist on your hands, check this place out, and help them become the leader they were born to be.

Jessica Schoech is the founder of The Vedge App, an up-and-coming app that will revolutionize the way we find veg food worldwide. She is a self-professed crunchy vegan mom (cloth diapers, anyone?), wife, and foodie, who finds the most joy in welcoming people of all backgrounds to the green side, especially vegan parents and children. You can find her on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and at Power to the Veg! on Facebook.

[yeacamp]

Our favorite part of gearing up for camp...

One of our favorite parts of getting ready for YEA Camp is reading our campers’ applications. We keep the application process pretty simple, but we do ask each prospective camper why they want to attend, what they care about, and what they hope to accomplish out of being there. Check out just a few of their inspiring comments (below), and invite any 12-17 year olds you know to think about what they might hope to get out of a summer camp designed to help them change the world! Then send them to our 2 minute video and to  www.YEACamp.org.

“It is up for young leaders to truly save the world. I want to learn about more resources that I can use, make friends and connect with each other, and have fun. I want to be able to realize that we as a race, though we have come far, are not nearly at the apex of our development and that it depends on us, this generation to advance the human race for the benefit of everyone else. The two main problems in the world are climate change and racism. Many are denying it, but the movement to literally save the world is growing. Almost all scientists have accepted that global warming is a serious threat, and if we don’t do something about it soon, the world could be very well thrown into chaos. Since it takes almost worldwide cooperation to prevent global warming, a problem that will need to be solved first is racism. How is the Israeli prime minister and the leaders of the Arab League going to even meet? Although we consider ourselves very far ahead in equality, we are far from it.” -JiaHeng, age 14

“I would like to attend YEA Camp to improve my activism skills, meet other young change-makers, and gain inspiration. I would like to learn new outreach tactics I can use in my work and am also interested in learning about other issues occurring in the world today. In my experience attending, I would like to gain more confidence, understanding of other world issues, and new tactics I can use to change the world for animals. I would also learn more about how I can gain supporters for my cause to help me. The issue I am most passionate about and have chosen to dedicate my life to is animal rights. Our fellow creatures on this planet stand utterly defenseless against us and we treat them with no mercy. We are abusing our power and this sickens me. They cannot stand up for themselves and as a result, we must be their voice. I have already taken much action to stand up for animals. I am founder and president of Live Life Humane, which I founded when I was 14 years old. Live Life Humane is a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to educating young people about animal rights issues and inspiring them to make a difference. Launching my outreach in the New Year, we plan to do grassroots outreach (leafleting and tabling), humane education presentations, online activism, and peaceful protests. I am currently in production of “The Young Person’s Guide to Helping Animals,” which we will distribute at our events. Visit our website at www.LiveLifeHumane.org.” -Andrew, age 16

[en-entropy]

The Rules and Theories of Rock Climbing and Life

In order of importance

Rules

Look good

Feel good

Be safe

Theories

Don't be scared

Get Some.

Thank you Jason.

[alexthecaat-blog-blog]

I got a  scholarship to go to an activist camp in a couple of weeks. I am so excited and grateful. I feel so lucky for what I've gotten to accomplish this past year and sooooo glad that it has given me this wonderful chance to go to this camp. I can't wait to go and learn all that I can and grow in a way that can help me make a difference.