Met Council gives kids a chance to sit around the camp fire
Sixty kids from Brooklyn and Queens are getting the chance to enjoy swimming, camping, volleyball and other fun-filled activities at summer camp, thanks to the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, which expanded a scholarship fund it runs to enable the kids to get out of the city.
The funds were provided by Lizzy and Bryce Markus, according to the Met Council, which is providing the camp scholarships to 60 children from families living below 300 percent of the poverty level ($71,550 for a family of four). The families got to select the summer camp their child is attending.
Kids from several Brooklyn neighborhoods, including Borough Park, Flatbush, Crown Heights, Coney Island, Marine Park and Williamsburg benefitted from the summer camp scholarships.