"I volunteered to help organize VWC quite a few years ago because I felt I wanted to give back to the community a little of what I had received from camp. What I didn't realize was how much I would learn from the experience of working with my fellow camp mates in a 'real' way outside of the magical week of camp. Working in the consensus process is challenging and is itself a magical process which has many ups and downs but more importantly it brought me to consider many points of view; it inspired me to be open-minded and in that space let go of personal agendas.

Organizing is a lot of work and takes up a lot of time over the year; in other words, it is a big commitment. But the reward is seeing happy faces at camp, feeling the energy we as organizers created during the year, take hold and flourish in our week."

~ Donna Read