MCDANIELS’ SUMMER CAMP FOR FOSTER KIDS
RUN-DMC star DARRYL MCDANIELS has spent his summer counselling foster kid s at a special summer camp in his native New York.
The rapper co-founded Camp Felix after discovering he had been adopted at the age of five when he was in his mid-30s.
The annual three-week get away brings together 350 eight-to-14 year old s each summer at Peekskill in upstate New York. McDaniels’ aim: to help k ids in the child welfare system share their experiences and overcome iden tity issues.
The It’s Tricky hitmaker, who chronicled his first meeting with his bio logical mother in the 2004 documentary DMC: My Adoption Journey, tells th e New York Daily News, "These kids say, ‘I am just a foster kid. I have n othing going for me other than just being miserable.’ I tell them, ‘You a re wrong. Your situation doesn=E2=80=99t define who you are.’" "We are a family" McDaniels has already used his famous name to attract star-studded supp ort for Camp Felix - Mark Wahlberg recently donated $100,000 (GBP66,700) to the cause.
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