Signing up Teens for Summer Survival Adventures
The Children of the Earth Foundation announces its summer survival courses designed to inspire teens to get outside.
(Vocus/PRWEB ) May 29, 2009 -- The Children of the Earth Foundation announces its summer survival courses designed to inspire teens to get outside. Courses are offered June through August in New Jersey, California and British Columbia. In the fast paced days of cell phones, texting and Facebook, teens can find the outdoors rather dull and boring. How many parents have heard, "there's nothing to do"? The Children of the Earth Foundation poses a challenge that even modern teens find irresistible; can you go to the woods with almost nothing and survive? They've seen survival on television, but is it something they can really do themselves? The answer is yes, and the results are beyond their wildest dreams.
The survival skills taught through The Children of the Earth Foundation are primitive technologies used by indigenous cultures from around the world. They were taught to author and founder of the Children of the Earth Foundation, Tom Brown Jr. by an Apache elder named Stalking Wolf. Teens learn to make fire without matches, build shelters, find and purify water, learn wild edibles, how to track animals, how to make cordage, baskets and stone tools and so much more. In this process they also come to understand and appreciate their relationship with the natural world. When teens are learning survival skills it's guaranteed there's always something to do!
In these days of artificial excitement, teens relish the idea of a true adventure. In addition to our introductory programs, this summer Children of the Earth will be offering two Teen Wilderness Survival programs, one in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey, the other near Victoria B.C., Canada. In these advanced programs teens will prepare dried meat and pemmican, create gourd water bottles and with not much more than this, venture into the wild places with our experienced instructors where they will build shelters, create fire making kits, harvest wild edibles and make the tools and utensils they need for their survival. They learn to work together as a community, helping and supporting each other. They learn that they truly can take care of themselves and when they walk back out of the woods, they will never see the world the same way again.
We need to provide inspirational experiences for teens outdoors, not only to help in their personal development but because we need our teens to be advocates for the natural world. A teen who experiences all the interconnections of the natural world through living directly from the gifts of the Earth is a teen who will work toward creating a sustainable life for themselves and society.
Children of the Earth Foundation
Debbie Tremel
(609) 971-1799
www.cotef.org
COTEF Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NR3Kb0XtLjE
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