KERHONKSON, N.Y. – “Tabir Ptashat” is the day camp for Ukrainian-speaking children age 4-6 that is organized at the Soyuzivka Heritage Center by the Plast sorority Pershi Stezhi.
This year’s camp started on June 21 and ended July 4. Due to the popularity of the camp, two separate weeklong sessions are held back to back. Some campers like to stay for both weeks.
The theme of the first session was “The Five Senses,” while the second session’s theme was “Sadok Vyshnevyi” (The Cherry Orchard), in honor of Taras Shevchenko’s famous poem. Each day the children explored their camp’s theme through stories, games and crafts.
Oksana Mulyk was the director of the first session, which was attended by 17 campers, and Marta Pereyma ran the second session, which attracted 51 campers. The entire program is led in Ukrainian by parents of the campers who volunteer to lead activities.
Many thanks were expressed to those parents who selflessly give their time and effort to make each camp so successful. Thanks also went to the camp administrators and the behind-the-scenes Pershi Stezhi who make the camps possible: Oresta Fedyniak for taking care of the registration process, and Oksana Isajiw and Chrystyna Silecky for being on-site administrators.
