Live Chat with International Camping Fellowship — Transcript

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1. 0:032020
2. 0:04was a tough year for everybody and it
3. 0:07gives
4. 0:07us great pleasure to really celebrate
5. 0:11everybody who has submitted their legacy
6. 0:15program
7. 0:16to eca ambassadors this year
8. 0:19so as part of this campaign to really
9. 0:22celebrate everybody
10. 0:24today i'm joined by john jurgeson
11. 0:27from the international camping
12. 0:28fellowship and we'll have a quick live
13. 0:31chat to hear more about his legacy
14. 0:34program and his association
15. 0:36john welcome thank you for joining us
16. 0:39would you be able to just
17. 0:41quickly introduce yourself and your
18. 0:42association
19. 0:44absolutely thank you senior for this
20. 0:46opportunity
21. 0:47and thanks to ika my name is john
22. 0:50jorgensen if you take the first part of
23. 0:52my last
24. 0:52name you get georgie that's my camp
25. 0:55nickname
26. 0:56and the international camping fellowship
27. 0:59is
28. 0:59a an organization of organizations
29. 1:03uh we began over 30 years ago
30. 1:07at a small at a national conference in
31. 1:10the united states
32. 1:11where we began to realize that camping
33. 1:14is not
34. 1:15uh isolated to north america that is
35. 1:18actually
36. 1:19embraced across the world in different
37. 1:22ways but
38. 1:23in many similar ways and so
39. 1:26over the years we now have accumulated
40. 1:29over
41. 1:304 000 uh individual members
42. 1:33and affiliates as well as
43. 1:36uh to almost 20 national or regional
44. 1:40organizations of camps and so that
45. 1:43reaches to that
46. 1:44that many more camps uh and in all of
47. 1:47those camps
48. 1:48are tens of thousands of children and so
49. 1:51our impact is truly global and certainly
50. 1:54the camping impact is truly global
51. 1:56and icf tries to embrace that
52. 2:00and to build communication amongst
53. 2:03the different countries thank you john
54. 2:06and and you've uh segued in to to what
55. 2:10my next question is
56. 2:11so your impact globally is
57. 2:14also through your meetings locally in
58. 2:18destinations when you submitted
59. 2:20your impact program it was connected to
60. 2:24the nigeria
61. 2:26event in 2019 could you just highlight
62. 2:29um the main elements of that program
63. 2:33and the impact you have attempted to
64. 2:36leave behind
65. 2:38in all across the world there are
66. 2:41countries at different stages of
67. 2:43development
68. 2:44and are discovering camping
69. 2:47as an important way to achieve a goal
70. 2:51icf is is not really intended as a
71. 2:54top-down organization so we don't direct
72. 2:57what happens in the united states or
73. 2:59canada or australia
74. 3:01or japan or china all around the world
75. 3:04instead what we tried to do is to foster
76. 3:07that sense of community and so it was
77. 3:11that
78. 3:11in nigeria
79. 3:14actually in in west africa nigeria was
80. 3:17was opting to be the host for a
81. 3:21gathering of
82. 3:22camp professionals in i think seven
83. 3:25different countries of west africa
84. 3:27all of which are have just a the germ
85. 3:31the the beginning of uh
86. 3:34a desire to work with camping
87. 3:37communities
88. 3:38and and through camping to effect change
89. 3:41in their youth uh and in ultimately in
90. 3:44society
91. 3:45so our idea then
92. 3:48is as an international organization is
93. 3:51to how can we fund this
94. 3:52how can we support this kind of project
95. 3:56and as you can imagine gathering people
96. 3:59across
97. 4:00west africa as well as bringing in
98. 4:03external experts to assist was
99. 4:06uh was challenging to be the best and so
100. 4:10we were looking for opportunities to
101. 4:13to build on that through the legacy fund
102. 4:16of eca
103. 4:18so and then 2020 happened and
104. 4:22and your beijing conference didn't
105. 4:24happen
106. 4:25this had a two-fold effect
107. 4:28on on your organization but also on
108. 4:31on your global community worldwide and
109. 4:34you did a
110. 4:35campaign uh which is called thanks to
111. 4:38camp
112. 4:39which you ran this summer and there is a
113. 4:41youtube link available now
114. 4:43in the screen as well as in the chat for
115. 4:46those who
116. 4:47want to um see the video for me
117. 4:50personally
118. 4:51it was heartbreaking just because i got
119. 4:53very emotional in seeing uh
120. 4:55the effects this pandemic had
121. 4:58on children globally and society would
122. 5:01you be able to just share a little bit
123. 5:03about the campaign itself
124. 5:05certainly first of all the the beijing
125. 5:09congress uh then is our major
126. 5:13professional gathering event we do it
127. 5:15once every three years
128. 5:16in different parts of the world and so
129. 5:19that has gone by the board and we
130. 5:20weren't able to do that
131. 5:22uh as a result of the pandemic and so we
132. 5:25wanted to know what what
133. 5:27could we do what should we do how can we
134. 5:29support these
135. 5:30large organizations and small
136. 5:32organizations
137. 5:33and and individual camps and individual
138. 5:36families and so
139. 5:39we developed this campaign called thanks
140. 5:41to camp and
141. 5:42thanks to camp has two meanings at least
142. 5:44in english to
143. 5:46to say that we can thank camp for
144. 5:48something
145. 5:49um but we can also uh use the term as
146. 5:53because camp because i've had the camp
147. 5:56experience i
148. 5:57am changed in some way and so we invited
149. 6:00campers and staff and directors to to
150. 6:04send in pictures of themselves and make
151. 6:06statements and to tell their story
152. 6:08because what we want to do is to give
153. 6:11camps
154. 6:12a voice camps i think are a little
155. 6:15misunderstood by the
156. 6:17by the general population by government
157. 6:19policy makers educators
158. 6:22camp is often just seen as a place where
159. 6:25children have fun
160. 6:27but we think of camp as a place where
161. 6:29children change
162. 6:30where they become the best version of
163. 6:32themselves and also that they learn
164. 6:34tools that help them become the
165. 6:38best version of themselves in society
166. 6:41and so it is an important
167. 6:44transition period for children and the
168. 6:47camp experience is transformative
169. 6:50so what we did was we gathered together
170. 6:53videos and pictures and stories
171. 6:55and put together the video that you saw
172. 6:59of uh thanks to camp and
173. 7:02uh it sets us up we hope that it is a
174. 7:05wake-up call
175. 7:06it it alerts educators and society in
176. 7:09general
177. 7:10of the value and values of camp and how
178. 7:13important it is for children
179. 7:15and for all of us and then we wanted
180. 7:19we want to add to that research
181. 7:22that demonstrates and we have this
182. 7:24research already that demonstrates
183. 7:27that children change at camp and
184. 7:30so we have a second campaign that we
185. 7:33want
186. 7:33to reinforce called more than just fun
187. 7:37where we are demonstrating that children
188. 7:41become more
189. 7:41self-aware that they become more
190. 7:43compassionate
191. 7:44that they become more aware of others
192. 7:48that they connect with nature uh and
193. 7:51that they learn to listen not just to
194. 7:53the voices coming from outside but also
195. 7:55the voice that's inside
196. 7:57every child and that these
197. 8:00are important growth uh
198. 8:03experiences for children and this is
199. 8:07so important because we really at the
200. 8:10especially at this point when children
201. 8:12are locked in their homes when they uh
202. 8:15are have to home school and online
203. 8:18school where they don't have those
204. 8:19connections that they really
205. 8:22find those voices um and be one with
206. 8:25nature is so important
207. 8:27so for everybody who wants to get in
208. 8:28touch with you and find out more about
209. 8:30all those campaigns
210. 8:32they can do so via your website correct
211. 8:35absolutely excellent and we are just
212. 8:39beaming and website address into the
213. 8:42screen now
214. 8:44thank you so much john that has been
215. 8:46such a wonderful story
216. 8:48from your end and i'm calling everybody
217. 8:51within the ica community who hears
218. 8:54this story to get in touch with john and
219. 8:58be more involved
220. 9:00for everybody who wants to hear more and
221. 9:02learn more about the
222. 9:04eca ambassadors incredible imprex
223. 9:06program
224. 9:07please visit the ak website
225. 9:10echoworld.org
226. 9:11forward slash incredible impacts thank
227. 9:14you so much and thank you john again for
228. 9:16joining us
229. 9:17our pleasure camps make a difference
230. 9:22[Music]
231. 9:44[Music]
232. 9:48i got it
233. 9:50[Music]
234. 9:57how can i explain
235. 10:01what i take away
236. 10:03[Music]
237. 10:05when the autumn falls
238. 10:08and we go our separate ways
239. 10:12[Music]
240. 10:15what is it exactly
241. 10:19how can i describe
242. 10:23all that i discovered
243. 10:27by that fireside
244. 10:33some things aren't defined
245. 10:41some things they're just
246. 10:45right cause it's
247. 10:49more than the green of trees
248. 10:52it's more than the summer breeze
249. 10:56the smell of rocks and water
250. 11:02[Music]
251. 11:04it's more than the orange fire
252. 11:08it's more than the fishing wire
253. 11:12it's more than the cabin walls or that
254. 11:16morning google calls
255. 11:22it's something you can't touch
256. 11:28but you can't hold so dear
257. 11:31[Music]
258. 11:40dude
259. 11:45[Music]
260. 11:54my
261. 12:14some things don't need
262. 12:18words
263. 12:19[Music]
264. 12:22something
265. 12:34it's more than the summer breeze
266. 12:45it's more than the orange fire
267. 12:49it's more than the fishing wire
268. 12:53it's more than the cabin walls or that
269. 12:59morning
270. 13:02[Music]
271. 13:03it's something you can't touch
272. 13:09but you can't hold so dear
273. 13:13[Music]
274. 13:17and maybe it's not much
275. 13:25but i'll be back next year
276. 13:32[Music]
277. 13:33i'll be back next year
278. 13:50[Music]
279. 13:57i'll be back next year
280. 14:02[Music]
281. 14:13oh it won't be
282. 14:17[Music]
283. 14:28[Music]
284. 14:29and the queen of trees
285. 14:51won't be long till the summer comes
286. 14:59it won't be long belong to the
287. 15:03[Music]
288. 15:10summertime
289. 15:19[Music]
290. 15:25[Music]
291. 15:32you