Photo Courtesy Of Boca West Country Club
Boca West Country Club Racquets Team John Joyce, Maria Tato, Matt McInerney and Rob Norton with kids in the camp program
Summer camp is a right of passage for many kids, and thanks to the Boca West Children’s Foundation, hundreds of local underserved youth will have the opportunity to attend. The Foundation granted $1.7 million to more than 30 charity partners, granting the gift of summer camp to the children these local nonprofits serve.
Since its inception in 2010, Boca West Children’s Foundation has been sending kids to camp, with the program growing each year. This summer, 15 children from the Boys & Girls Clubs of Palm Beach County will attend overnight camp at YMCA Camp Winona in Central Florida; up to 50 kids will have the chance to improve their basketball and life skills at Ballsters, a one-week basketball day camp; 200 children will learn to play a musical instrument at FAU Band Camp and 35 children will attend a three-week-long pickleball camp at Boca West Country Club. Additionally, children, teens and young adults with special needs will attend JCC’s Camp Kavod, while kids with fewer resources can attend Nat King Cole Generation Hope’s two-week summer music camp.
“Summer camps are out of reach for so many families and giving kids from our charity partners this opportunity is an important component of our mission,” says Pamela Weinroth, executive director of Boca West Children’s Foundation. “We are helping to create childhood memories, while also providing care for the kids during the summer while their parents work.”
Richard Zenker, chairman of the Foundation’s board, says, “We’d like all local children to have the opportunity to attend summer camp, whether music, sports or overnight camp. With the pickleball craze sweeping the nation, it’s a great opportunity for kids to learn this sport, thanks to the racquet sports staff and volunteers at Boca West Country Club.”
For more information, visit bocawestfoundation.org.