Luethi-Peterson Camps

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Welcome to Luethi-Peterson Camps!
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Luethi-Peterson Camps promotes understanding through international summer camps where young people of diverse backgrounds build community and establish lasting friendships.
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Members of Luethi-Peterson Camps believe that good human relations and responsible community living can best be learned by personal experience at an early age.

Welcome to Luethi-Peterson Camps!

Members of Luethi-Peterson Camps believe that good human relations and responsible community living can best be learned by personal experience at an early age.

International understanding

We believe that strife among people of different national, racial, and religious backgrounds stems from fear of the unknown, that both fear and ignorance can be overcome to bring young people together from differing backgrounds and giving them the opportunity to live, work, play, and learn together over a period of several weeks in summer camps.

Community

It is our firm conviction that such experience provides the necessary basis for a better understanding among peoples as well as the independent thinking, self-reliance, and sense of responsibility needed by the individual participants to deal with a world which grows steadily smaller and a world population increasingly interdependent.

In keeping with the goal of promoting an inclusive society in which people are valued for their human worth, LPC does not discriminate on any grounds, including race, colour, religion, age, economic background, national or ethnic origin, gender, disability or sexual orientation.

The LPC Central Office is located in the Ecole d’Humanité, an international school in Hasliberg-Goldern, Switzerland, which Natalie and Armin Luethi-Peterson directed for many years. Over the years, the school and the camp have mutually benefited each other as campers cross over to become students at the school and vice-versa. For more information about the Ecole d’Humanite, go to: https://www.ecole.ch

LEARN MORE

Please click on the play button below to view the three minute video “What is LPC?” created by Pip Cree. In it Pip describes how the Luethi-Peterson Camps began, the first camp in 1949, and LPC’s vision. She also asks several people to describe LPC in just three words.

Get Involved

There are three main ways you can get involved in LPC:

Campers

Campers are usually between 9 and 17 years of age. They attend LPC summer camps and have fun participating in camp activities.

Staff members

.Staff members are either camp counselors or camp directors. Counselors are usually 18 years of age or older; they work as part of a team to prepare camp activities, to supervise and assist campers, and to help run a summer camp. Directors usually spend several years as counselors before they run a summer camp; they select counselors to run a camp and campers to attend, and they oversee its progress from the planning stages through to the end of the summer.

Support Groups

Alternatively, you could join one of the LPC Support Groups, which are located in various countries and provide assistance to counselors and directors organizing nearby camps, or you could help to support LPC by making a donation to the organization.

Click any of the above links for details on how to become a camper, counselor, or director.

Donations

LPC receives little or no funding from state or institutional sources, and our overhead costs are high because of our international reach and small size. Donations enable us to subsidize families and counselors who otherwise would not be able to send their children to camp or go themselves. They are crucial to ensure we can live up to our mission of bringing together young people from different backgrounds and allow them to forge friendships across lines that might otherwise divide them.

Please support LPC, if you can, with a donation in any amount. Please click below to find out more about how to donate:

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