PRUDENTIAL CONTRIBUTES MONEY AND MUSCLE TO BENEFIT KIDS
Published in The Courier 

8/29/2002 By Lynn Azzolina

Marlboro Township – Fifteen disadvantaged children, from Monmouth County, were awarded camperships to Kateri Day Camp, in Marlboro Township, through a grant of $4,500 from the Prudential Property and Casualty Insurance of Holmdel.  The company has been a major supporter of Kateri’s Campership Program for six years.

 “They really take an active interest in our kids,” said Jackie St. Angel, Development Director of Collier Services, the non-profit parent organization of the camp.  St. Angel noted that employees stop by, occasionally, to visit the campers.

Kateri Day Camp serves more children with financial need than any camp in Monmouth County.  More than 1,000 enrollment slots will be filled by summer’s end, and almost every one of those children will get either full or partial financial assistance.

“Volunteer service is also an important part of Prudential’s support,” said St. Angel, who explained that the Prudential Volunteer Committee held a fundraiser that underwrote camperships for two youngsters.  In the spring, employee volunteers and their families spent a day fixing up a playground and another group will plant 150 trees on Collier’s 260-acre campus this fall.

Kateri Day Camp is a program of Collier Services, a leader in giving at-risk boys and girls a chance to grow to their potential, through non-sectarian educational, recreational, and residential programs.  Collier Services, founded by the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, is celebrating its 75^th anniversary throughout 2002.