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Our programs are only made possible through the generosity of our donors. Even with extraordinary support of our volunteers, the cost of sending a single child to camp for a week is $900.
Our programs are only made possible through the generosity of our donors. Even with extraordinary support of our volunteers, the cost of sending a single child to camp for a week is $900.
All donations, no matter the amount,
are deeply appreciated.
HELP RAISE FUNDS TO SEND A CHILD TO CAMP!
You can set up your own fundraising campaign... Here's how:Click on the link below to visit the Colorado Gives website, and click on "Fundraise for your favorite nonprofit" at the top of the page. Just follow the instructions to create a campaign for Wapiyapi that runs from now through June 1, 2013. We suggest that you set your fundraising goal at $900 -- the cost for just one child to attend camp for a week. Lastly, email the link to all of your contacts with a note from you about why this is important, post your link on Facebook and Twitter, and watch your thermometer rise!
Camp Wapiyapi serves approximately 80 kids with cancer and their siblings. We divide up into teams and have a week of fun. Activities include arts and crafts, sports carnival, water gun fights, high- and low-ropes course challenges, and dances -- none of which you would recognize in our Camp Wapiyapi way. Everything is about having fun, acting like a kid, being silly. Kids stay Sunday through Friday, and we ask many of our volunteers to join us for an orientation the Saturday before camp.
Consider making a supplies donation for arts and activities!
We are in need of supplies for Camp Wapiyapi 2013 and you can make a difference! Please take a look at the following list of items and email contact@wapiyapi.org indicating item(s) you would like to donate. Tax receipts will be provided for all in-kind donations. Thank you!!!
Items Needed for Party in the USA activities:
1 Red Carpet (use for both weeks)—felt
Trophies (one for each camper (130) for the “Oscars”)
130 Cardboard/Styrofoam bottom
130 Plastic cups
130 Toilet paper rolls
Hot Glue gun with glue sticks
Tape
Hollywood sign
Cardboard
20 bottles Sparkling cider
150 plastic champagne glasses
150 Decoration stars
Paint (dip hands in paint and put on stars)
Newspapers (as many as possible)
Recyclable items (used for a “fashion show”)
24 roles masking Tape
Curtain/runway
Alaskan decorations
Icicle Christmas lights
4 gallons milk
325 mL Vanilla (6—59mL bottles)
One 5lb bag of sugar
13 1lb 10oz bottles of salt (9360g total)
300 quart size bags (Freezer Ziploc preferred, must be able to close)
150 gallon size bags (freezer Ziploc preferred, must be able to close)
2 can cocoa powder
Paper (as much as possible, for making snowflakes)
Scissors
2 cases Coconut water
150 Pineapple slices
Hawaiian decorations
15 Hula skirts
150 Leis/flowers for girls hair
15 Hula hoops
2 Bars for limbo
Limbo and Hawaiian music
150 Sea shells
For Spirit Committee:
Need the following items in team colors: red, yellow, green, blue, purple, orange, and black
Face paint
Balloons (generally around 100 per week plus more for the dance)
Streamers (2 rolls per week)
Other:
Window paint markers (2 per week)
Blue painters tape (at least 2 rolls per week)
colored ductape (one role per week)
any other temporary decorations that people are willing to donate in the team colors
Someone who can do face painting
Pudding
Jello
Flour
Oatmeal
Cereal
Mascots: Stuffed bears, or other carnival type animals, with colored bowties for each team (need 14 in total, these can also be purchased online relatively cheaply if need be)
For Craft Shack:
- puff paints: glitter and regular
- 50 heavy duty round magnets
- yarns in team colors
- fancy yarns
- 50 used CDs
- feathers
- jewels for craftmaking
- hot glue sticks
- embroidery threads
- needle threaders
- 18, 20 and 22 gauge wire for jewelry making
- 3.5 x 3.5 tiles
- cocktail napkins with pretty designs
- 300 disposable gloves
- 6 ropes (approximately 15 feet in length)
- 4 medium tubs
- 8 large sponges
- whip cream (enough to fill 150 pie tins!)
- 25 bandanas
Wapiyapi holds several fundraising events every year. Please visit the Events page for details on what events are coming up!
