Rotary Club makes Leadership Gift to Camp Brigadoon

The Brigadoon Children’s Camp Society is thrilled with a $250,000 gift from the Rotary Club of New Minas Sunrise to the Building Brigadoon capital campaign.

“This gift speaks volumes about the community in which Brigadoon will be built,” says Roger Sinclair, Chair, Building Brigadoon Capital Campaign. “The leadership shown by the 55 members of the club and the support we are seeing from the Valley community is overwhelming and has moved us closer to the reality of Brigadoon.”

The gift from the Rotary Club of New Minas Sunrise is being made primarily through its “Camp Out For Kids” event within the “Sunrise for Brigadoon” campaign. “Camp Out For Kids” will be held this year on June 20-21. The monies will go directly to building a cabin at Brigadoon, which will be known as the “Camp Out For Kids” Cabin. The goal of the club is to raise the $250,000 within a five-year time frame.

“We are responding to the hundreds of individuals in our community who have found meaning in our participation with our event known as Camp Out for Kids. We were hearing from these community fundraising teams and from individuals on the street that they would like to put a major effort into contributing to build this unique village. It’s our biggest commitment to any cause in our short eight-year history as a service club,” says Adam Smith, President Elect, Rotary Club of New Minas Sunrise.

Brigadoon is a not-for-profit group building a year-round facility dedicated to young people living with a chronic illness or condition, and to the teachers and health care providers dedicated to their care.

Brigadoon will be the first facility of its kind in Atlantic Canada, and one of only a handful of facilities in Canada that focus on experiential-based learning, research and teaching. Brigadoon will encompass the facility capacities of all presently existing special needs camps with room to develop more, with a focus on uncovering the vast unmet need of the pediatric chronic illness population in Atlantic Canada.

The three-year Building Brigadoon campaign aims to raise $5.75 million to build the state-of-the-art facility. Brigadoon plans to begin construction of its facility in 2009/2010.

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