We provide learning and leadership experiences for under-served teens, in nature & the outdoors | Annual Open Your Heart Camp | @UNESCO ESD GAP Partner.
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We are excited!!! to begin plans for the annual Open Your Heart Camp #OYHC2019 🥳🥳🥳🎉🎉 happening on the 20th of July 2019 🎇🎆 The camp is an outdoor empowerment programme for underserved teenagers in Nigeria, Every year, we focus on a set of under-served teens and -1
On this #InternationalVolunteerDay, we’re thankful for all the wonderful people who have donated their time to ensure that our annual Open Your Heart Camp for under-served teenagers living with Autism or Down Syndrome is a huge success.🤗 Compassionate Volunteers #IVD2019 💕
Mood: Joy
The faces of our teenagers as they opened their hearts and soaked up the allure that came with being at the beach and being with wonderful people.
Each face tell it's own story and they are all resplendent with the joy that comes when we open our hearts to new people
Fun !!! Fun!!! More fun!!! Open Your Heart Camp was great!! We appreciate everyone that made it possible @wahamba_ng#kidsbeachgarden @ Kids Beach Garden https://t.co/Vo0gsxAGVa
We cant say thank you enough to everyone who has supported this cause in one way or the other, keeping the camp FREE! Look at the happy faces of these teens, you've changed lives. THANK YOU.🙏
How do we begin to explain the joy in our hearts💖💖 Open Your Heart Camp 2019 was a great success! This is the 3rd year that this camp has used experience in Nature, Art,Skill to Educate & Empower under-served teen's living with Autism and Down syndrome. 📸 @blaze_uzor
Activity 2: Dance steps
The teens are using dance steps to express themselves. Tell us what you'd like to be in the future and give us a dance step to go with it. #OYHC2019 show us your talent. #Autism#downsyndrome
The Rap team😁 participating in the clean the beach exercise guided by our volunteer @ziniex For most of them, this activity is a new experience and we couldn't be happier to see how it's helping them improve on their team bonding spirit. #OYHC2019#Autism#downsyndrome
We are live!! Open Your Heart Camp 2019. Activity 1: Clean the beach 🏖 This is one of the activities curated by our partners from Kids Beach Garden to help improve the teens social skills while Educating them on environmental issues & care. #OYHC2019#Autism#downsyndrome
We are excited 🕺 🕺 On our way to the 2019 Open Your Heart Camp location- Kids Beach Garden and we can't wait to share all the exciting activities with you. Thank you very much to all our donors, partners, volunteers. Its #OYHC2019#Autism#downsyndrome#naturelearning
Ladies and Gentlemen 🔊 it's today!! 💃 🕺 OPEN YOUR HEART CAMP 2019 🥁 🥁 15 teens living with Autistim and 15 teens living with Down Syndrome would benefit from this experience of a lifetime. The camp consists of Educative, Practical and Fun activities.
It's tomorrow people!!! Can you feel our excitement. Nothing brings more joy than doing good. .
On that note, it's last call for donations, tapping that link in our bio and following the prompts is all you need to do, it's pretty simple.
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2 days to Open Your Heart Camp
OMG! So much planning, thought, action and love have gone into this. The testimonials from the guardians of last year's participants have been so inspiring. It's why we continue, despite the odds. .
Thanks for joining us. Let's do more.
Reposted from @wahamba_ng (get_regrann) - Under-served teenagers (this year, teens on the autism spectrum and those with down syndrome), should not be denied the right to association and expression, so this year… https://t.co/6zZHpYW97z
The countdown has begun!!!
4 Days to OYHC 2019:EXPLORING WATER ON TREASURE ISLAND is just a few days away. .
If you haven't donated yet, don't sleep on it, just tap on the link in our bio. The amount you donate doesn't matter as much as just keying into this awesomeness.
Let us remind you that the greatest tragedy that can befall a neurotypical teen or child is to be surrounded by adults who think autism, down syndrome, etc is a tragedy or who think they are imbeciles and so we are doing our bit to make these teens get comfortable, aware,