This is the fourth in a series of posts highlighting hunger-related activities happening at ELCA Outdoor Ministry locations with the help of Education\/Advocacy grants from ELCA World Hunger. The following is from\u00a0Lake Wapo Lutheran Camp in Wisconsin.<\/p>\n
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The new opportunities that our ELCA World Hunger Education\/Advocacy grant has provided have been extremely beneficial to Ox Lake\u2019s program this summer.\u00a0 We have been able to use these resources to further Ox\u2019s commitment to being thoughtful of how we live in and care for our world and its resources.\u00a0 One of our projects has been focused on water.<\/p>\n
We purchased two rain barrels and constructed a rainwater collection system on one of our dining halls.\u00a0 After the first rainstorm we were amazed to see how much water can be collected!\u00a0 We installed the second barrel closer to the garden, and connected it to the first barrel with a 100-foot hose. Water drains from the first barrel into the second, which we use to water the garden. When the second barrel is full, the first barrel then fills. We use water from the first barrel in the kitchen.\u00a0 Because of the rainy summer we\u2019ve had at camp and because the system works really well, we\u2019ve been able to water our garden entirely from our rainwater collection system.\u00a0 We\u2019ve also been able to challenge campers to think about the resource of water and how \u2013 and how much \u2013 they use it.\u00a0 Activities designed to illustrate the difficulties many people face distributing and transporting water have further challenged our campers to think about access to clean water.<\/p>\n
We also wanted to show the cycle of food, and to discuss the problem of waste and pollution.\u00a0 We were able to purchase materials to build two different types of compost systems.\u00a0 Each system shows kids the benefits of composting.\u00a0 We built a barrel-compost for organic waste from meal preparation and table scraps.\u00a0 It\u2019s been neat showing kids how organic material breaks down over time.\u00a0 We empty the broken down material back into the garden.\u00a0 Explaining to kids that the nutrients from the broken down compost helps our garden grow brings them full circle.\u00a0 We also constructed a fenced-in, pile-compost used primarily for lawn clippings, garden material, weeds and vegetation etc.\u00a0 We\u2019ve been able to ask kids about where their waste goes.\u00a0 We\u2019ve been able to challenge them to think about alternatives to discarding their waste (esp. organic material) in trash cans.<\/p>\n
Overall, these additions to the Ox Lake Village Program have challenged campers and staff alike to see that how we live affects our neighbors that live next door and people across the world.\u00a0 As we seek to love our neighbors as ourselves, we believe that it is essential to think about how we can be better stewards of all that God has given us, and these projects have helped us do that.<\/p>\n
Tony Schaden and Sam Pertz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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