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A summer camp for ASHINAGA scholars is three nights and four days.
The programs of emotional support at the camp include plays, ball games, hiking and a bonfire.
Three to four university student leaders support high school students in each group during the summer camp.
Student leaders act as older siblings to younger students. Leaders' behavior serves as a model to younger students for their future.
After younger students meet the older ones, they start thinking about their futures positively. Many of them begin thinking about going to college. They wish to come back to the camp as student-leaders.
We believe that the most important program at the summer camp is a peer counseling session called "Let's Talk about Ourselves."
Student leaders listen to younger student talk about their feelings.
Younger student talk openly of their emotional problems and sad feelings to other children in the same group.
Many of them can not tell family members, school friends and schoolteachers about their inner feelings. However, these children express their emotions frankly at the summer camps.
They feel more secure after they have shared their emotions with other children in the same situation.
>They often say, "I am not the only person who has sad feelings and feels lonely".
The children encourage and support each other emotionally.
ASHINAGA summer camp is a place to recover "the power to live" from each other that they naturally possess.
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