第一届大觉华寺儿童佛学营于2005年开办。每年的佛学营都会在年终假期举办，接近上百位小学生和青年义工积极参与。“佛陀，我的BFF”（佛陀，我永远的好朋友 ; Buddha, My Best Friend Forever) 是佛学营的主题。意味着我们永远与佛陀的教导在一起，不会离开。皆着佛法来净化我们的心，离开烦恼痛苦，为人至善。

 

我们的筹委会是由一群热血的青年义工组成。由主持法师文智师父的佛法引导及数年累月的筹办经验下，我们慢慢的成立了一个不可或缺的团队。虽然筹办过程的确艰辛，但我们都能一心面对。在筹办当中，我们有说不完的故事，笑不完的欢乐，熬不完的夜晚等无法描述的心情。但奇妙的是，我们从不嫌弃彼此的长短，不会理会外在的形象，只会同心的将事情办好。在不知不觉中我们营造了这样的一个团队文化。我们相信只要我们理念一致，同心协力一定能达到我们的目标，让佛学营更有意义。

 

我们对佛学营的考量不重于佛学营的人数而是我们的素质。不管是膳食，住宿，活动安排等，我们的营队每年都不断的改良及提升。希望不会因环境的变化而随之变质。我们一路坚持筹办一个“实在”的佛学营。实在的让我们的参加者有所获益也因而可以改进自己。我们佛学营是要营造一股力量来推动所有的参加者，让他们能一起学习，一起改变习气（坏习惯）和能让他们学习一起度过融洽的团体生活就像佛陀带领僧团们一起渡过竹林生活一样。

 

此外，我们也相信儿童和青年可以在玩乐中学习更多，因此我们的活动设计是非常多元化的。我们的活动是富有体验性，在所有的游戏和活动里我们都会融入佛陀的教导和做人的道德等，以让营员们更能了解与吸收。 在营期间我们也非常注重营员们日常生活的知识与规矩，我们时常会教授一些生活上有用的知识。因为我们除了要让营员在佛法上有收益外，也希望能让他们学习独立的生活。 除了一些佛学与生活上的知识以外，我们也竟可能的让孩子们能在佛寺里修修福报，因此我们坚持进行佛事的活动，比如诵经，礼拜，朝山等活动希望孩子们可以种下菩提善根。来到佛学营的尾声，我们的无尽灯结营礼提倡亲子的良好关系，因此会邀请所有家长参加与孩子有亲子间互动，以进一步的拉近彼此的关系。我们每年都会筹划新鲜的活动，让参加者有不同的体验。

 

除了儿童营员外，我们也注重于义工们的培训及学习。我们希望义工们在帮忙的当中获益良多。我们对义工的训练有松有紧，有时我们给与柔和的鼓励，有时我们给予强劲的压力，以让他们能面对不同的环境，提升自己的弱点及加强本生的强处。 这些的训练能让义工们锻炼自己，提升团队的素质。

 

最后，我们希望“佛陀，我的BFF”能带给所有参加者欢喜充满及非同凡响的体验。

 

Tai Kuk Wah Si Children Buddhist Camp was first organized in the year 2005. Since then, the Children Buddhist Camp was held every year during the year-end school holiday. Each year, we received hundreds of primary school students as campers and also numerous youths who actively participate as volunteers. Our camp theme is “Buddha, My Best Friend Forever” which means that we will always stay in-line with the Buddha’s teaching to purify our mind and to stay away from anguish and pain.

 

Our organizing committee consists of a group of passionate youth, led by Master Seck Mun Chee, the abbot of Tai Kuk Wah Si Buddhist Temple. Throughout the nine years of organizing the Buddhist Camp, we have accumulated our experiences as the organizer and we slowly developed a bond that cannot be break easily amongst the committee members. Our journey until today was filled with many challenges especially during organizing and carrying out the camp. However, we did not back down easily and instead, we faced the challenges together as a team and managed to solve every problem that confronts us. During the hard times, we had countless night that we stayed up late to prepare the activities, but at the same time it is also rewarding for us as we gained our experiences to organize such a camp. We share a common goal and vision and we believe that someday in the future; we will attain our goal that is to make the camp more meaningful together as a team.

 

We always place our priority to the quality of the camp instead of the quantity of the campers. We strive for modifications and improvements in our activity, meal and lodging arrangements etc. Our ultimate aim is to organize a camp that not only benefits the camper but also at the same time a chance for us to improve ourselves. In addition, we would like to create a positive atmosphere for everyone to learn, to break their bad habits and to live as a group, together.

 

Moreover, we believe that the children and youth will gain more understanding if they get themselves involved in the activities. Hence, most of our activities we planned are regarding about experiencing. We incorporate moral values and Buddha’s teachings into the games and activities we planned and we hope that by doing this, it will enhance the understandings of the children and the youth. We also teach the children surviving skills and help them to develop livelong skills. Besides that, we also hope that the campers can cultivate more blessings by carrying out some activities such as chanting, worshipping and pilgrimage. At the end of the camp, we will have a closing ceremony that promotes parental relationship. We invite all parents to join the ceremony and to participate in the activity with their children.

 

Furthermore, we also focus on the training and learning with our volunteers. We hope that the volunteers after volunteering themselves for 7 days might learn extra knowledge and experience from the camp. We have different methods to train them. Sometimes we exert pressure on them and at the same time we give them encouragements in order for them to experience different working environments. We hope that the volunteer training will help in enhancing self-abilities and improving teamwork.

 

Finally, we hope that “Buddha, My Best Friend Forever” can bring joy and different experiences to the participants.