Summer in the City
Project Morry’s culinary kids from Connecticut cook up a storm at camp
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Jul 31, 2010 - 6:58 PM

Culinary Kids cook up a storm at Morry’s Camp

Sporting decorated chef hats, aprons, and big smiles, youngsters mix, dice and sauté their way to a healthy lifestyle at Morry’s Camp in Glen Spey, NY, a residential summer camp with an educational focus and the anchor of the nonprofit Project Morry. Using a creative hands-on approach, campers from Connecticut learn the importance of proper nutrition through Project Morry’s most popular program, Culinary Kids. During the summer, boys and girls who take part in Culinary Kids learn to embrace a healthy lifestyle through exciting cooking labs, fun catering events and a wide variety of stimulating exercise routines.

“Healthy habits are best learned early,” says Dawn Ewing, Executive Director of Project Morry. “We want our campers to take responsibility over their diet, make better choices and be examples to their friends, families and communities. Culinary Kids empowers children to adopt these positive habits and carry them forward throughout their adulthood in an effort to combat preventable health risks.”

Through Culinary Kids, young people discover the importance of foods that are vital to healthy diets and discuss essential nutrients, calcium-rich ingredients, vitamins, minerals and great taste. Younger campers explore a variety of strategies in both diet and physical fitness. Older campers advance to personalizing their own wellness plans and are challenged to increase their physical abilities. During the program, campers learn to evaluate their own diets and see if they are making the right food choices, with many taking the healthy habits and recipes they learn at camp home to share with their families. Project Morry’s Culinary Kids program also helps participants build self-confidence, develop teamwork strategies and learn basic food science and math through advanced cooking labs, special events, mentorships and career discovery programs.

Project Morry is a nonprofit, year round youth development organization, anchored by a residential summer camp with an educational focus. The organization is dedicated to giving inner-city children enriching learning opportunities through a curriculum based on school meetings and an intensive summer camp program. The children, for whom these experiences would not otherwise be available, benefit from a network of support and gain increased social skills, enhanced self-esteem, positive core values and a greater sense of personal responsibility. Project Morry is named in honor of Morry Stein, whose life was dedicated to the enrichment of children’s lives through the residential camp experience. For more information, log on to www.projectmorry.org.

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