At Camp Go Green, campers designed furniture from cardboard with help from teen leaders
On East Strawberry Street in Lancaster, a new program called NuLife is taking fire in the hearts and minds of both teenagers and adults.
A couple of months ago, Schirlyn Kamara stopped by the Nimble Thimble sewing shop in downtown Lancaster. She runs NuLife, a social enterprise that teaches at-risk women to sew. They make items from recycled fabric — clothing, accessories and household goods — to sell online.
On the last day of Youth Go Green camp, there’s a lemonade sale and time to hang out in a lounge before the campers go their separate ways. Look closer and you realize the campers made the lemonade stand, along with a lot of other furniture — and all of it was constructed from cardboard.