Housing Arrangments

Lucky for me some of the volunteers on the trip are interested in their housing arrangements. I got an email with the website with detailed information about our housing arrangements. Yippee!

Camp Victor was built by volunteers, for volunteers. We have 6 air conditioned/heated dorms, 3 male and 3 female, giving us the capacity to house 220 volunteers weekly. The camp has shower and bathroom facilities, a large dining hall area for meals and orientation, a lounge for relaxing and spending time with other volunteers, and a chapel for prayer or meetings. We are located in the heart of art influenced Ocean Springs, MS which is home to over 100 restaurants, shops and activities. The beach is roughly 1 mile from camp and the neighborhood scenery makes for great running.

Dining Hall

All volunteer meals, orientation and camp prayer services are held in the Camp Victor dining hall. Three meals are provided daily for our volunteers; a hot breakfast and dinner and bag lunches are made by each volunteer in the morning before leaving for the work site. Volunteers often use the dining hall as a lounge area to play cards or talk after dinner.

Lounge

Our lounge has four computers with internet access, cable TV, games, books and a soda machine. We also provide wireless internet throughout the building and lockers in the dorms for those wishing to bring laptops. The lounge, as with all common areas in camp, closes at 10 pm for lights out.

Dormitories

Bunk beds with mattresses line the walls and center aisle of the dorm rooms. Each volunteer is asked to bring sheets, pillow and blankets for their bunk. Outlets can be found in every room and arrangements can be made for people needing the use of an outlet at night. Food and drinks are not allowed in the dorm rooms.