Hi, SOFLY Hearts❤️
This is an exciting week for my family and the community outreach we do.
When I was seven years old my mother started a mission called CAMP CAN-DO that taught children about God, in our community that was known as a ghetto. But last year my boss, Corey A. Griffin, a major local DC businessman, along with his awesome surprise guest, DC City Councilman Kenyan McDuffie, shared valuable time to attend our event. Then the game changed. After the children performed, Corey spoke to the audience and said we should be called CAMP WILL-DO.
We have embraced and loved our new name ever since. For so many reasons.
I would love for you to get in on this excitement.
~This week Friday will be the 29th Annual Celebration of what used to be CAMP CAN-DO, now CAMP WILL-DO!
~My mother did this work for almost three decades! from when she first started in 1990. This is not what she could do, this is what she would do.
~Camp Will-Do is about growing the lives of children and introducing hope & love:
Every Saturday (during the school year) from 12-3 pm..
Bible stories and lessons are brought to the ‘hood -every child is welcome..
Arts & Craft projects every week to remember and understand the story.
Rules that wouldn’t break you but they would make you -great..
And the best 3-part snack bag to go home with – it’s like a golden treat every time..
Friends & Safety.
~Mother Howard-Jackson would do this ministry on her own and she kept doing it. —On her own. Whether she had support from anybody or not. This was her personal business. She never made it an organization. Working for children that they have a chance to know God, to know love and to know relief from the grief in our community, is most important to her. She gave this mission her willpower.
~Mother has been doing this Children’s Ministry Outreach in some of the same communities it started in and also reached out to every new community she lived in. This has become generational.
~Last year, CAMP WILL-DO was passed on to my sister, Melba Howard. Mother has given so much of her time and dedication to this outreach. And she has realized that her time has been well proven to do this work BUT also believes that this mission must go on. So not only are we celebrating another legendary year for WILL-DO but we are also celebrating and supporting my sister’s passing of the torch takeover as the new leader.
No one else was doing anything like this in or near our community. That’s not a bash to anyone, that is a praise to her. It is a well deserved praise, because she decided and continued to do this for the children where it was desperately needed.
CONGRATULATIONS to Mother/ Melba/ CAMP WILL-DO!
Much Love