This year, we plan to take 4,500 young people for a holiday of their lives on our Summer Camps

This summer we want to host more than 4,500 children at Mission Summer Camps across Eastern Europe. It’s an ambitious number but we know how encouraging it can be, introducing children to new activities and watching the joy and excitement on their faces as they participate, and seeing the lives of young people transformed by a growing Christian faith.

This year we are running Summer Camps for children who have been displaced from their homes because of the war in Ukraine, and for children who live in great poverty - many of whom find themselves having to be the responsible one and juggling chores at home as well as school can leave a child exhausted, emotionally and physically.

“I remember the first summer camp these kids went on. When it was nearly bedtime, I asked one of the little ones to take a quick shower. The little boy, who was eight years old at the time, was found just standing and staring, all dressed up, not knowing what he was supposed to do as he’d never taken a shower before. Imagine his joy in learning that he didn’t have to worry about the water running out.”

The children in these villages are growing up in incredibly tough home environments and receive very little educational, emotional or spiritual guidance from their parents or the wider community.

Most have never known what it is to wake to a loving meal, experience the freedom to play and fall asleep in a safe bed. Instead, they wake to war at their doorstep, a hard day's work and empty bellies at night.

Mission Without Borders Summer Camps give children in poverty the chance to have a safe place to play where they experience childhood and the love of God.