April Holiday Camp Welcomes 60 Children

Our largest holiday camp yet ran for two weeks with life-skills sessions, sports, and mentorship pairing for older teens.

The Details

Sixty children and teenagers took part in Camp Nuo's April school-holiday camp, our largest to date, run over two weeks by a team of 14 volunteer mentors. Daily sessions covered life skills, goal-setting and confidence-building, alongside sports, music and art activities intended to give the camp variety beyond a classroom-style structure.

Twenty-two of the older teens were matched with a mentor for continued check-ins through the second school term — a deliberate extension beyond the camp's two weeks, since organisers found that impact from a single camp tends to fade without follow-up.

The camp also piloted a girls' leadership circle, a smaller, facilitated discussion space for teenage girls covering confidence-building and personal safety, which proved popular enough that it is now a standing feature of every future holiday camp.

"Camp gave my son something to look forward to every holiday instead of idle days on the estate." — A parent, Mwiki

Why It Matters

Unsupervised school holidays are consistently flagged by Mwiki parents and teachers as a period of higher risk for idleness, petty crime exposure and falling behind academically. Structured mentorship during these windows, backed by ongoing check-ins through the term, is designed to close that gap rather than paper over it for two weeks and disappear.