Thank you for choosing to learn about the Royal Family Kids Camp here in Columbia City! I am constantly blown away by the hearts of our volunteers and donors. What we do here at RFK is not possible without you!

We are a week-long summer camp that is specifically designed for the children in our local foster care system. For one week out of the summer we pour as much love, encouragement, and hope into these incredibly special (and so often forgotten) children. Our campers come to us with histories of neglect, physical abuse, sexual abuse, abandonment, and terrible mistreatments. However; for the week that we have them, we focus on their hopeful futures rather than their hurtful pasts.

Are you wondering if a week can really make a difference? Let me tell you about a young man I met named Darren. Darren was energetic, positive, smart, and excited about life. He had just graduated high school and was getting ready to start his first year of college. But instead of hanging out with his friends during his one last summer as a “kid”, he was volunteering at a Royal Family Kids Camp. He was volunteering as a camp counselor because Darren had spent his life in foster care and was a RFK camper multiple times.