Hole in the Wall Gang Camp
- Hole in the Wall Gang Camp
Hole in the Wall Gang Camp is a residential summer camp and year-round center for seriously ill children located in Ashford, Connecticut. All services are provided free of charge based upon contributions received from thousands of individuals, and hundreds of corporations, foundations, and organizations. Services include an outreach program to hospitals throughout the northeast in which staff members make regular visits to seriously ill hospitalized children.
Paul Newman cofounded the camp with A.E. Hotchner in 1988; it was named after the gang in his film "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" (the Hole in the Wall Gang). The camp is a convert|300|acre|km2|sing=on parcel of land including a 44 acre lake. The land was the part of the Harakaly farm. When the farming industry in Connecticut began to decline the Harakalys built the lake, and after refusing to develop it, sold it to Newman. The camp receives support from more than 6,000 annual donors and many organizations, including Newman's Own and Newman's college fraternity, Phi Kappa Tau. Although Mr. Newman remained active on the Camp's Board of Directors through his later years and supported the organization financially, approximately 98% of the Camp's annual operating budget of $6.5 million comes from sources other than Paul Newman or Newman's Own.
The Camp provides advice and financial support to other camps with similar missions, as part of the Association of Hole in the Wall Camps, a worldwide association of camps for seriously ill children.
ee also
*Newman's Own
External links
* [http://www.holeinthewallgang.org/ The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp]
* [http://www.holeinthewallcamps.org/ Hole In The Wall Camps]
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