Camp Life

Caritas is a fully organized camping facility. Eight cabins with comfortable wooden bunks with foam mattresses are available for the campers. Each cabin has one or two cabin leaders and roughly eight campers. All the cabins are made up with teenagers of the same age group. During the course of the day, the cabin mates are always together (except during the Sports Program where the campers are mixed), sharing their sleeping quarters, meals, afternoon outdoor activities and firetalks. They rapidly build a mutual friendship, trust and brotherhood in the cabin. The cabin leader plays a key role in the chemistry that exists among his cabin mates.
Firetalks are truly the most important part of the day. Is it the time where the cabin mates will bond together in a very special way and it is during those firetalks that personal growth occurs the most.

At Caritas, the food is prepared by professional Chef Thomas Green. In charge of the kitchen and its personnel, Chef Green has spent many summers at Caritas ensuring that all campers and staff members eat energetic, well balanced meals that provides them with the energy they need to get through each fun filled day. There is Free Time after lunch and supper, where campers can relax or play. The Rec Hall offers activities such as pool, Mississippi, ping pong, air hockey and table soccer. On special nights during the camp session, O.N.P.s (Overnight Programs) are scheduled for the campers. An O.N.P. gives each cabin and its cabin mates the chance to take a holiday from the main camping grounds and venture into the forest and sleep overnight in several camping sites. Awards are given to those who deserve them, to those who have worked hard and they are meant to be not only a souvenir of Caritas, but also the proof of an accomplishment. The directors and their assistants plan together the daily schedule and all the overall camp activities. The sports coordinator oversees the Sports Program (National League) and makes sure all the teams are equally balanced and that the rules in each sport are respected. Another coordinator is in charge of the afternoon outdoor activities and makes sure each cabin gets to do all the activities that the camp offers. Most of the Staff leaders have been campers themselves before they became leaders and every summer, a new group of L.I.T.s (Leaders In Training) are slowly learning the ropes of good leadership. Caritas is truly a place to learn and develop leadership skills.