FAQs

Wazi campers arrive and depart by bus, car, or by plane to Logan International Airport or to Portland International Jetport. Please see the Transportation page for more information.

Wazi counselors are the best staff anywhere, and are educators and college students. Most are people we know and have known for many years. Many were campers and went through our CIT (Counselor In Training) program.

Every single person who works at Camp Waziyatah receives a full background check.

Each day, we place 50 to 100 pictures on our password-protected, secure website so parents can see their kids having a great time. This is a wonderful experience for all parents, especially for new parents.

Yes! We use a system that allows parents to email their kids. Emails are printed and given to kids daily. Kids write back weekly (this is mandatory for all campers) with postcards we provide.

Visiting Day will take place on the second Saturday of each four-week session. Confirmation of these dates and more information will be sent out to families as we get closer to camp.

We have two full-time nurses at camp.

The hospital is within 15 minutes drive from camp.

We use PackMyRx, a service which pre-packages, pre-doses, and pre-labels all medications for every child at camp which insures maximum safety. The cost is about $60 per four week session. We DO NOT recommend changing or stopping medications just before camp. Sign up on our Forms and Resources page.

Wazi counselors and senior staff are well trained to handle homesickness. It is a normal experience for campers of all ages, and goes away within a few days. Kids feel a tremendous sense of self-worth and pride after getting over it. Strong homesickness that lasts more than a few days is extremely rare, and in that case, we would contact the family.

Camp Waziyatah has great food. We have a vegetarian option at every meal, an endless salad bar and fruit bowl and delicious, healthy food. We do not sell candy of any kind at camp, but we do have a full-time baker who makes wonderful desserts and snacks.

Unlike many camps, we do not list our ratio based on total staff to total campers. This is misleading to parents, as the amount of kitchen and maintenance staff plays no part in the experience of your kids. We discuss only the cabin counselor to camper ratio. Wazi has two counselors per cabin and often a junior counselor or C.I.T. as well. Cabin groups are from six to twelve campers, so the ratio is one to two or one to three (one counselor for every two or three campers).

Not at all. Cabin unity and camp unity is promoted literally from the moment kids arrive. Wazi is extremely careful not to allow grouping or cliques or any other kind of separation between campers. Counselors are specially trained to address camper unity.

Yes! Wazi campers choose each week from a list of activities and they ALWAYS get exactly what they pick. Regardless of how many campers choose an activity, we make sure every camper gets to do whatever activity they select.