A Male Problem,,,,,and One Possible Solution

Pavelski wrote:

Did your son get that soccer scholarship in Colorado?

I fear there is a little mis-understanding.

Both of my sons separately worked their university summers in the States, in Wisconsin, and later, in Oregon. Both qualified as lifeguards, and seemed to spend their time saving nice looking young ladies, even when the ladies were in no trouble.

Don't know where they got that from. :shock:

Dave Mac,
Please forgive my error. I suspect someone else on this site mentionned this point. I assumed it was you.

All of the rest is correct ,,I hope!

Pavel

pavelski wrote:Dave Mac,
Please forgive my error. I suspect someone else on this site mentionned this point. I assumed it was you.

All of the rest is correct ,,I hope!

Pavel

Pav, it was my son who was going to America to play football for 4 years. We wont know until February where he is going. He wants to go to Florida or California, but I want him to go to Colorado.
Cant think why.....

This, and your recent post got me thinking. I know there are some charities that aim to give deprived kids/teenagers/young adults an experience of mountains. Does anyone have a good list of these charities?

steverandomno wrote:This, and your recent post got me thinking. I know there are some charities that aim to give deprived kids/teenagers/young adults an experience of mountains. Does anyone have a good list of these charities?

what do mean by that? skiing or adventure travel? what's your interest if I might ask? and, yes I probably do have some contacts depending on what you need.

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ise wrote:

steverandomno wrote:This, and your recent post got me thinking. I know there are some charities that aim to give deprived kids/teenagers/young adults an experience of mountains. Does anyone have a good list of these charities?

what do mean by that? skiing or adventure travel? what's your interest if I might ask? and, yes I probably do have some contacts depending on what you need.

Because its the sort of worthwile charity that I wouldn't mind giving some cash to. And I'm sure there are a lot of others who read this who would feel the same way.

I would be interested mostly in skiing related charities.

steverandomno wrote:
I would be interested mostly in skiing related charities.

There's not many of those I'm aware of, it's a fairly exclusive sport and the costs would probably outweigh the benefits for a lot of young people. It's also not of huge interest to the charities working with those groups, in the end participants doing a week skiing in the alps probably won't develop to the degree a group doing their DofE would so the charities get more bang for their buck having groups on hills in the UK.

For that some of the many highlights,

Leonard Cheshire Disability have an Outdoor Pursuits Group who work with young people. Fairbridge are one of the largest groups doing this, speaking for themselves:

OUR SUPPORTERS SHARE OUR BELIEF THAT EVERY YOUNG PERSON DESERVES SOMEONE TO BELIEVE IN THEM AND AN OPPORTUNITY TO PROVE THEMSELVES.

LAST YEAR, BY HELPING US TO RAISE OVER £10 MILLION, THEY MADE THIS VISION A REALITY FOR OVER 3,700 YOUNG PEOPLE IN 15 OF THE MOST DEPRIVED AREAS IN THE COUNTRY.

But many thousands more would benefit from our support. Current estimates put the number of young people not in education, employment and training at 1.2 million. These young people are in danger of chronic exclusion without the support of organisations such as Fairbridge.

More traditionally any number of youth groups and organisations like the Scouts do fantastic work with young people. What a lot of these groups need really is help but they require qualified people as a rule. Where adventure is used to develop young people it needs to be done properly setting challenges that are achievable for all the participants and making sure everyone goes away having developed in some way in a setting where risk is managed properly.