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Who Runs Camp Kamaji in Minnesota?

 

Camp Kamaji is a sleepaway, summer camp for girls ages 7 through 16 years old located in Northern Minnesota, run by Kat Martin and Jason Nelson. Our mission is that…

Kamaji is a safe, happy, fun-filled place for campers to come unplug, try new activities, learn new skills, be silly and goofy, develop a true sense of self, be deliriously happy and make really strong friendships with campers and staff alike.

Directors of Kamaji, Minnesota: Kat and Jason with their family.
Two girls at Kamaji Girls Camp in Minnesota
Enjoying the first at Kamaji Camp for girls in Minnesota
Girls summer camp dressup
Girls on a raft at Kamaji summer camp
Kamaji offers many activities like waterskiing, horseback riding, paddleboarding, archery, dance, windsurfing, sailing and more.

This summer at Kamaji won’t just be about the experiences you have climbing to the top of our climbing wall, portaging a canoe and sailing across the lake, it will also be the people you meet and the memories you make that will stay with you long after your camping days are over. It becomes a part of who you are.

At Kamaji, courage is celebrated. We encourage girls to come to our camp without knowing anyone else here, that takes courage. While here, campers are encouraged to try activities they have never done before and to challenge themselves to step outside of their comfort-zone in order to grow, learn, and develop their own independence. This takes courage they might not know they have (yet!) and is extremely empowering.

We recognize our campers for their individual accomplishments and efforts. If a camper wants to wear red cowboy boots every day around camp, she becomes a camp icon. If a camper stands up on stage during the Variety Show to sing a solo and gets stagefright, the campers in the audience sing along to encourage her. We recognize the courage and strength it takes to put yourself out there to go to a new place, meet new people and be true to who you are.

Because of that, our camp community rallies around each other to celebrate each other’s courage to do those things in this safe, encouraging, supportive and fun environment.

We hope you take some time to explore our website to learn more about who we are, our philosophy, our history, our activities, our special programs and about our staff.

We can’t wait to talk with you about how your camper will learn to Celebrate Courage this summer at Kamaji!

 

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Summer camp is an incredibly fun and memorable experience, but sometimes grown-ups might take a little convincing.

Fill out the form below and send them an email that’s sure to convince them that you’d love to spend this summer at Kamaji- be sure to include some of the things you would learn from your time at Kamaji!

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Girls on a surfboard at Kamaji summer camp for girls

From Our Blog:

Donate To Camp For All Kids

Dear Kamaji Alum, I don’t know about you, but one of the things that has struck me this particular holiday season, somehow more than before, is while things continue to be not totally normal, I find myself more and more grateful and appreciative for the little things...

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Musings from Alumna, Andrea Cuttler

As this goes on, my two friends and I – visitors for the weekend and longtime Kamaji campers and counselors ourselves – sit a few tables away, watching the madness ensue. Almost immediately, and quite inexplicably, all three of us have the exact same reaction: We begin to weep.

And then, as we realize we’ve all had this visceral response to the scene before us, we begin to laugh.

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#KamajiCourage

“Kamaji is magical”. How many times have you heard this? How many times have you SAID this? How many times have you thought this to yourself? It is, it is truly magical. But now try to explain why. It’s hard!! Because for us Kamaji girls, it just IS. Maybe it is the...

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Kamaji Notes: June 30, 2010

We had an action packed last few days.  First session is zooming along.  Can you believe that two weeks from tomorrow the first session campers will be on their home??!!  Yikes! We hope you’ve been keeping up with the pictures on “Smugmug”.   If so, you’ve been able...

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June 22, 2010 – Kamaji News

Wow! So much has changed here at camp in the past five  days. After a week or more of staff orientation, Camp Kamaji came to life last Friday afternoon when the buses rolled in. There’s been a constant buzz now that Kamaji’s 97th camping season has begun. We thought...

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Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah

Greetings from Camp Kamaji where it is much too quiet for our liking!! Although summertime has yet to give way to Autumn,  the life-and-breath, the heart-and-soul, the campers and staff are no longer in residence.  Camp is simply not “camp” – the last of the departing...

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Anne Comes Home

Anne comes home today! I woke abruptly, with a catch in my throat as I realized the immediacy of the day, both for myself and for her. I have missed her. I am aching to put my arms around her after a month's absence. I am so eager to hear her stories of archery and...

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Please Don’t Box Me In

I' m stuck in a box and I can't get out!!  Seriously, in yesterday's e-messages, I received a questionnaire from my college that asked all kinds of questions —  from where I live to my marital status to whether or not I have kids to how many pets and what kind, if...

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How to Play Hooky- Ferris Bueller Style

Way back in 1986 a genius movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off starring Matthew Broderick was released.   Many of you might fondly remember this movie, but just in case . . . . . . Ferris fakes sick in order to skip out of school for a day.  But he doesn’t fake sick just to...

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