It's summer and all kinds of camps have been organized. But one of the bigger ones is always the The Belize City Council sports summer camp.
It began today at the Yabra Football Field and the Lopez Mateos Park.
The camp caters for children ages 6 to 16 and will run for the next 6 weeks - right up until the end of the holidays.
7news visited one of the camp sites this afternoon where we met with the Councilor in charge of the program - and he explained what they hope to achieve:
Councillor Bernard Pitts Jr.
"They decided to continue the annual camp and we decided to choose two areas. Actually we wanted to do 4 but with budgetary constraints led us to just two. We have here at Yabra and then we have the other at Lopez Mateo Park. We intend to run the camp for 6 weeks, so we should be ending the 24th of August."
"They need to register, we have 4 different disciplines, we have mainly football, volleyball and softball and the kids can choose whichever discipline they want to participate in."
Monica Bodden
"Any particular why these two areas were chosen?"
Councillor Bernard Pitts Jr.
"We ended up with these two because we wanted to get as much as possible from both sides of the city. Our first proposal was to do here at Yabra, Hoy Field behind the police station, Berger Field and as well the field at the complex building. That's to capture at least the majority of the kids and then on the north side we wanted to do Lopez Mateo Park, we wanted to use YWCA and Buttonwood Bay park and the field in the Belama area. However our budget didn't really panned out for that but we are making the best of it and so far it has been proven to be working."
"Apart of progressing in the city, a part of development the kids are a part of it, we need to invest in them. They are talented and we can't just leave them wondering throughout the summer. Our plan was to get them busy as much as possible and at least by the end of this camp we know they will leave with something."
Monica Bodden
"What are the ages that you cater for?"
Councillor Bernard Pitts Jr.
"We have form age 6 to 16 right now. Actually we have younger participants but we try not to turn back any of the kids."
So far a hundred and eighty youngsters have signed up for the Summer Camp.
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