During the summer holidays, a group of youth leaders from across Slovakia ran a day camp in the Roma settlement of Strelník, near Slovak Paradise.

The activities the leaders prepared were an excellent opportunity for the children to spend their free time and to liven up their holiday programme. The children could meet Quasimodo and Esmeralda and, together with them, build new friendships, fight against the obstacles in their way and learn together. During the week, the leaders worked with the children on a variety of art workshops and made bracelets out of cotton thread and beads together, drew and learned new dances together. Football, skipping ropes and balls were an inseparable part of every day, and another big attraction was a tarp on which the children could slide. The games were not only about fun, and so the programme also included cleaning up the playground and the rest of the settlement together, with the leaders and children collecting rubbish into bags. The children from the settlement had the chance to learn many new things together with the leaders, but the leaders too left the camp encouraged by the joy of the children and their eagerness to actively get involved.

The day camp was made possible thanks to financial help from Resco, spol. s r.o. and thanks to the support of Savio o.z. Help in carrying it out was provided by the chaplain Štefan Belko and the parish priest Marián Sivoň from Letanovce, to whom we owe a great deal of thanks, as well as to the leaders, who devoted their free time to the camp.