We are so excited to report that Shooting Star Adventures has made the news! 100+ Women Who Care East County is a local group of women who gather four times a year for 1 hour, learn about local charities, and each donate a $100 check to 100+ = $10,000. On May 6th, they are holding a virtual fundraising event in honor of Mother’s Day and Shooting Star Adventures will be one of the non-profits that they hope to help fund.

Shooting Star Adventures is honored to be considered at this event. Our summer camp Camp Two Roads was created to build an intentional community for young women, especially those living in Gresham and the surrounding areas. We wanted our collective daughters to grow up feeling confident, capable and ready to become the next generation of leaders here locally and wherever their path in life might lead.

While we only learned of this organization a few months back, we were humbled to be chosen as one of the three recipients along with Soroptimist International of Gresham  and  Women Sew Global Foundation. We had no idea that the event would be featured in the Gresham Outlook or that this time around it would be open to the public and that anyone could attend and donate. To read the Outlook article – click here.

Donations raised through this event with provide camperships (scholarships) for campers at Camp Two Roads this summer and beyond. With the year we have all experienced, the need for real, in person peer connections for our youth is at it’s greatest need. Unfortunately, so is the financial burden of many families who find themselves without income earners, battling sickness or in some cases both. The number of families that have applied for camperships so far in 2021 is double that of 2020 and the number just keeps increasing. We are hopeful that your generosity will allow us to continues to provide this camp for ANY girl who desires to participate regardless of their family’s financial abilities.

With campers, the need for cabin counselors also increases and so do our costs for having them on site. Our cabin counselors are high school aged young women, many of whom were once campers in our program themselves and their tuition is 100% subsidized by Shooting Star Adventures. Counselors families have faced similar struggles this past year and their need for a connect community of peers is just as great, if not more so than our campers. Our senior staff, post HS women, help mentor our counselors in leadership, skills and life in general – in a way you could almost consider them campers too, just taller. We hope to use part of this event’s funding to allow us to bring more HS young women onto our cabin staff team, not only to allow for more campers to be served, but to help them connect to their peers and grow in their confidence as well. If you know of a young woman aged 15 and up, who might benefit from this type of mentoring, leadership and community,  please share our camp staff opportunity with here.

This virtual event will be help on May 6th, 2021 at 6:15 pm. It is a quick 45 minute event that promises to offer a lasting impact in our community. If you would like to attend the meeting in support or to donate, please visit the Facebook event page or visit their website 100 Women Who Care – East County. We hope to see you on the call and look forward to the outcome of this very humbling and game-changing event.

Ohdaka – Outdoor happiness deepens awareness, kinship and adventure.