Support Scholarships at Wilderness Awareness School

"One of the biggest things I’ve gotten out of this program is HOPE. This has greatly impacted me, and it’s beyond measure.” -Richie Booth, Residential Program student

We just celebrated the end of another successful school year, and the graduation of our biggest Residential Program class yet - 31 adults who will return to their communities to share the new fire in their eyes, and the knowledge and love of nature that's in their minds and hearts.

Will you celebrate their graduation with a gift to the Ingwe Scholarship Fund?

Recently, I talked with some of our students who had received scholarships--most of them would not have been able to come to Wilderness Awareness School this year without your generous assistance.

I found that we are awakening senses, sweetening dispositions, stirring imagination, nourishing dreams. I’d say we are tilting the world with pure HOPE.

What I heard astounded me, and confirmed what I knew in my heart to be true. You can read about their immense gratitude to you as benefactors by visiting here.

Through the Ingwe Memorial Scholarship Fund we gave a total of almost $60,000 in scholarships this school year, but still had to turn many people away who applied.

For next fall's youth and adult programs, we've already received over $50,000 in scholarship requests! When that is combined with scholarships for summer youth or adult programs, we expect to be asked for over $75,000 in assistance.

Here's what your scholarship gift can provide:
$35 helps a child to explore the woods for a full day with a group of kids and our mentors at our Monthly Programs...

$50 can help a family of four learn about nature together and gather their own stories at one of our family programs...

$70 allows a teen to experience the mystery of friction fires, and night stars--perhaps for the first time--at a teen wilderness adventure program...

$100, when combined with other gifts at this level, allows a 4 year-old in our year-long Roots and Wings program to start their love of nature early with a group of friends, hearing stories and singing songs, observing plants and animals with all of their senses...

$250 generously provides a scholarship for one of our overnight camps, where a child can play, chase frogs, get dirty, build a group survival shelter by hand, learn the best healing plants for nettle stings and what berries are the juiciest, and experience hope...

Our goal is to build the Ingwe Scholarship Fund so we can aid EVERYONE who needs it next school year.

Please give the gift of hope with your donation today, so all who come through our doors will be able to take advantage of our class offerings.

Blessings of peace,

Laurie Nelson Alexander, Development Director

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