Population Served: Day and Resident Campers

GLOBAL VILLAGE Annual International All-Camp Event Site: Camp Martha Johnston

Materials Needed: 8-12 Staff on average who act as host, interpreters, or educators of a specific country, time period or state of United States:

International Staff who represent different countries.

American Staff who will represent different States, time periods or studied countries.

Station materials:

 Examples of money (pound, gilder, yen, dollar)  Bite size sample foods (chocolate, won ton, pastry, biscuits) – have cooks or staff prepare before event.  Teach phrases of language (greetings, thank you, please, you’re welcome, etc.)  Location maps  Flag of nation  Pictures, slides or video of landmarks, landscape, homes, famous people from area, etc.  Country or flag of nation stickers  Teach an international game, song, craft, dance, or tell a folk story

Costume for leaders.

 Craft made passports from an earlier art class  Flags of all nations banner for decorations  Stations are set in a circular pattern for rotation through the countries.

Divide your participants into groups based on the amount of stations you have set up for Global Village. For example, if you have eight stations, you can serve 80-120 participants with eight groups of ten to fifteen campers.

Each group begins at a station and then rotates from station to station every fifteen minutes (2 hour program is ideal; however, less stations can be visited in longer increments of time.) A bell, whistle, or music is used to signal for groups to travel to new destinations. Before leaving a station, campers should have their passports stamped, signed or stickered to indicate that they have visited that country.

At the end of the day, campers who have visited three or more countries may purchase a Global Village patch from the Country Store. Passports are often brought back to camp the following year for collecting and visiting other countries found at Camp Martha Johnston.

Counselors are asked before traveling to camp to bring items, recipes, flags, and pictures that represent their country for sharing and exchanging cultural differences and information. Counselors in the past have left behind pictures, post cards, program materials and information for future use of representation of their country. Thanks to international staff from Turkey, Sweden, and England, these countries will be represented during their absence.

How did the activity increase international understanding and/or cultural awareness among your campers and staff?

(LLL) This activity teaches campers and staff cultural awareness. Campers are given an opportunity to understand and learn about places that they may want to visit. For the camper who may never travel out of the United States, we bring those traveling destinations to them. Global Village is an interactive, hands on, question asking, answer telling, creative session. Through Global Village we can dispel some of the myths and misunderstanding of those who come from unfamiliar places. By promoting Global Village, we promote diversity and understanding about others and ourselves.