Big Announcements

Hello! Since I last updated, there are just a few announcements. 

1- We now have a Donate button on our page, took a little while but it is finally here! So please, forward our information about the camp to your friends, family and whoever else! We would greatly appreciate it.

2- We would like to announce that many new organizations and people have been responding to our camp and will be donating to Casa Camp 2012! One of them being Creative Pitch. They will be helping us on our mission to create an amazing summer for the children of Casa ! They will be collecting supplies for us for the next few months so we can take them down to Celaya. Big and exciting news for us! 

Please check out their page:

http://www.creativepitch.org/home.htm

Truly an amazing organization. 

So that's the news! Couldn't be happier. Thanks to everyone who has contributed in any way thus far...I can only imagine where we will be in a few months from now!

-Lucia & Luis

Photographs

Favorite Childhood Game?

What was your favorite childhood game?(like Simon says, red-rover, etc...) Let us know!

Thanks, 

Lucia & Luis

Stories

Things for Casa Camp 2012 are going so well, spreading the word and getting support! Couldn't be happier with the way things are turning out. 

Luis and I thought it would be a wonderful idea to start writing little stories about some of our experiences with the kids at the Casa.

At the Casa you are exposed so many different types of people, the stories you hear and the experiences you have really do change your life in little ways. I'll begin with a short story about a girl named Sofia, age 5(name changed for privacy of the girl) In December of 2010, I went to Celaya to shoot a documentary named 108 Calle Hidalgo(still attached from the opening of the film). I went down with my mom and we shot for a week--very short time, but it's all I had for break! One night, we went to the Casa and I saw Sofia. I've known Sofia for a short time and she came right up to me and took my hand. She smiled and told me(in Spanish) "I have a present for you, can I give it to you?" She touched my bracelet and said, "Can I tell you what it is?" and I said "sure!" She told me that she made a bracelet for me but that it's not something I was probably used to having, because it isn't made of gold. Little did she know, the bracelet I was wearing I think I got from some little craft fair in Astoria, NY...it definitely wasn't gold! It was really interesting to see how someone so young could have such a strong perception of what people from the US are like or what they're "used to". 

So, right there is a little story that has so much impact on me. There are so many more stories to tell...

Thanks for reading! 

(me with some of the kids from Casa)

Thank you Yollocalli!

Another great day for Casa Camp 2012! 

We received a very generous donation of art supplies from Yollocalli Arts Reach in Pilsen!

Thank you so much for all the supplies, we are so excited!

Please check out Yollocalli's website to find out more information about what they are up to!

http://www.yollocalli.org/

thanks again, 

Lucia & Luis

founders of Casa Camp 2012

Hablamos Español Expo-Elgin

Had  a great weekend. On Saturday, went to the Hablamos Español Expo in Elgin and we made many connections! It was a wonderful time and we showed with a group of very talented artists!

Thanks everyone for coming out!

Supplies List!