There are ten camps run by the council.
The foundation was officially created in 1995, with the first camp being run that year.
The camp at Virginia Commonwealth, run by the union for 11 years, focuses on life skills, as well as basketball.
Training camps run by al-Qaeda and Taliban groups have multiplied over the past few years.
Others, who ended up in the camps run by the two other resistance factions, fare somewhat better (box, page 27).
A majority face an indefinite stay in camps run by the United Nations - a homeless legion of the lost.
Evan, his brother in the seventh grade, has volunteered as a counselor-in-training at the camp run by a nearby preschool.
Several more camps, run by different advocacy groups for the deaf, are scheduled this summer around the nation.
The youngsters visit the model farm twice during their two-week stay at one of the four camps run by the Fund on the 3,000-acre reservation.
After that, more than 75 percent of them attend a second, voluntary camp run by their coach in Longwood's gym.