FUN Camps is an environmental leadership summer day camp in Vancouver and Victoria BC run by Friends Uniting for Nature (FUN) Society - a charitable non-profit organization.

Want to learn how to reduce your your ecological footprint, develop leadership skills, learn how to work with others AND have fun at the same time?

FUN Camps is for 6-16 year old youth in Vancouver and 6-12 year old youth in Victoria BC.

Activities include: Building mini solar powered cars and racing them, baking brownies in solar ovens, creating a mini eco-city using recycled materials, planning social/environmental change projects, bike maintenance workshops, growing sprouts, gardening, exploring nature, outdoor games, sports, swimming, art, drama and hiking. The camps run Monday-Friday, July 5th to Aug 27th from 9am-4pm at UBC in Vancouver and Windsor Park Pavilion in Victoria. For camps that are currently listed as full second sessions will open up with high demand.

Each week has a different environmental theme such as energy, transportation, food,water, nature and eco-footprint. There are two added features this year, an environmental themed loot bag for each participant to encourage responsible environmental action at home and a social/environmental change project contest.

Spaces are filling up fast, so please register soon!

For more info go to: http://www.funcamps.ca
Email: info@funcamps.ca

We are hosting Vancouver’s only Big Balls Soccer game this Saturday, June 20th. 2:00 p.m. @ English Bay, the park across the street from the Sylvia hotel. Think of it as a flashmob pick-up soccer game played with over-sized balls, just for fun.

The stakes are low, the balls are big and everyone is invited to play. Big Balls soccer is in support of KidStart.

KidStart recruits and trains caring adults to coach vulnerable kids through the game of life.

Although most families have been lead to believe that childhood vaccines are mandatory in Canada, they are not, and giving a child a shot requires the parents to provide the doctor or nurse with informed consent. Unfortunately, the majority of parents are saying "yes" to vaccines without actually being informed about the real risks and benefits of either the vaccine in question or the associated disease.

My goal in 2009 is to create an information website for parents that will not preach a position either for or against vaccination, as all current vaccine websites do, rather it will provide easy to understand, accurate and complete statistics so parents actually can feel like they are making the best decision for their child.

Please vote for my project "vaccine awareness - donnabarker" to help me win $1000 to get the website developed and online. Thank you!