{"id":20080,"date":"2023-10-10T03:24:34","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T03:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/?p=20080"},"modified":"2023-10-10T17:50:49","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T17:50:49","slug":"hindu-campsite-fundraiser-a-5-6-m-investment-in-communitys-future-generations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2023\/10\/10\/hindu-campsite-fundraiser-a-5-6-m-investment-in-communitys-future-generations\/","title":{"rendered":"Hindu Campsite Fundraiser a $5.6 M Investment in Community\u2019s Future Generations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>HOUSTON, TEXAS, October 6, 2023 (Indo American News): The South Asian community across the nation has been growing at a fast clip as also in Texas. But nowhere has the community been as active in the past decade \u2013 COVID notwithstanding \u2013 as it has been in the Houston area. It is not only in the typical draw for new immigrants \u2013 religious places of worship \u2013 but the attention has turned to building institutions that can serve generations to come. Of these, an idea that has percolated in the minds of elders has been to merge religious teachings with cultural assimilation of Indian values within the context of the mainstream American landscape we all live in. The result has been the Hindu Heritage Youth Camp which has been catering to young kids for the past 39 years with activities each year at different campsites in the region. Over 5,000 youth have attended the HHYC in over 39 years. The need for the camp is overwhelming as 600 applications are received each year and only 200 are accepted.<br><br>Just three years ago, these same elders led the effort to buy their own site near Columbus, with initial seed money coming from a generous $ 1.7 million donation by benefactors Subhash and Saroj Gupta. A first-ever fundraiser was held for the Texas Hindu Campsite this past Sunday, October 1 at a sold-out event for 725 people at the GSHS Event Center on West Bellfort. The campsite is projected to cost close to $5.6 million and Phase one is underway. The plan includes a multipurpose building, theater, cabins for campers, kitchen, swimming pool, basketball court, soccer field, outdoor amphitheater, lake and walking trails. The goal is to host the first youth camp in the summer of 2024. The campsite could also be utilized for a variety of events, every temple and other organizations for their retreats for youth and adults, corporate retreats, and family gatherings.<br><br>More at source.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indoamerican-news.com\/hindu-campsite-fundraiser-a-5-6mm-investment-in-communitys-future-generations\/\n\">https:\/\/www.indoamerican-news.com\/hindu-campsite-fundraiser-a-5-6mm-investment-in-communitys-future-generations\/<br><\/a><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON, TEXAS, October 6, 2023 (Indo American News): The South Asian community across the nation has been growing at a,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20091,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20080"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20092,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20080\/revisions\/20092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}