'When you actually, really live and work and play together and have conflict together and overcome challenges together, that is how you really learn how to interact with people or people you perceive as different from you.'
It was a wish to bring children from various backgrounds and races together. Now that dream is a reality and it's grown into a summer camp packed with fun and life lessons here in Illinois. CBS 2's Jim Williams explains.
"Kupugani is a place where they can learn to appreciate each other, appreciate difference. It's really the world we want to see and we can create it at camp." So Gordon went law school and saved money. Fifteen years ago, he and his wife Natasha Jackson opened Camp Kupugani in Leaf River, Illinois. Last summer, Matteo Callan attended the camp and he's excited to return.Matteo, who's 13, learned some important lessons.
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