Life Skills Camps

“I found myself to be more confident, and it made me feel like I could do this as a career”, says 16-year-old Maddie Bell of Amuri Area School in Culverden on her award-winning attendance at Blue Light’s Life Skills Camp in Burnham from 24 – 28 February 2025. For Maddie, winning the Overall Merit award […]

Winning the Overall Excellence Award at Blue Light’s recent Life Skills camp in Whenuapai was the perfect way for Zeva Peard to conclude a week of achieving personal goals. “To me, it meant that I had accomplished everything that I was aiming for and even more. It meant that I had put my all into

For 16-year-olds Russell Hockley and Kent Mills, from Taranaki, attending Blue Light’s Life Skills Camp and gaining two of the top three awards has inspired them both to pursue careers in the New Zealand Army. “I pushed myself out of my comfort zone and learned to make friends with people in a short space of

“I didn’t know I was going to be chosen but I was happy and even more happy because I made my family proud,” says Palmerston North teen Taniwaka Waho-Marsden as she reflects on winning the Overall Merit Award at Blue Light’s Life Skills Camp held at Trentham Military Camp from 21 – 25 October 2024.

For Umusei Tupuola, Overall Merit Award winner at Blue Light’s recent Life Skills camp, learning to ride a bike and tackling a mountain bike track for the first time was just one of many milestones he achieved at camp. He also successfully completed the Hi and Low ropes course. “Because of my fear of heights,