Everything Drake White does in his career is geared toward having enough money anf resources to build a camp for kids that will help them discover their talents and their passions and help turn them into self-sufficient people. Drake explains, “The reason that I’m so passionate about showing kids their talents and maybe helping a kid understand that if you love baseball you don’t have to be a professional pitcher. You can still be in baseball and still be in professional baseball and not be a player, not be a pitcher. There’s a million jobs in it. I didn’t think like that when I was a kid. And I love my little small town of Hokes Bluff Alabama, but I was caught up and you know this is the way you live life you go to college, you get your job, you get your wife and have kids and the rest is hunky dory.”
But Drake says, “In my camp I just want to bring kids in and just give them a chance to enjoy the arts, enjoy learning how to build a fire, get my wife involved and how to cook a meal from scratch, how to catch a fish, how to fillet a fish, how to clean a deer, how to learn and get involved in taekwondo and jujitsu, how to get involved in your community and go recycle cans, how to save money to start your college fund. You don’t have to rely on anybody. Could you imagine a kid that started his college fund with a can collection and built that college fund up to once pay his way through college and not have any student loans? That’s the kind of power I’m talking about in teaching these kids how to be self-sufficient and not live a life full of zombies staring at a TV or a computer screen.”
It’s the desire to fund that camp that Drake works as hard as he does, touring and promoting his music, like his latest single, “Makin’ Me Look Good Again,” so that he can parlay his success into something amazing for kids.
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Drake White – camp for kids 1:19
“The reason that I’m so passionate about showing kids their talents and maybe helping a kid understand that if you love baseball you don’t have to be a professional pitcher. You can still be in baseball and still be in professional baseball and not be a player, not be a pitcher. There’s a million jobs in it. I didn’t think like that when I was a kid. And I love my little small town of Hokes Bluff Alabama, but I was caught up and you know this is the way you live life you go to college, you get your job, you get your wife and have kids and the rest is hunky dory. In my camp I just want to bring kids in and just give them a chance to enjoy the arts, enjoy learning how to build a fire, get my wife involved and how to cook a meal from scratch, how to catch a fish, how to fillet a fish, how to clean a deer, how to learn and get involved in taekwondo and jujitsu, how to get involved in your community and go recycle cans, how to save money to start your college fund. You don’t have to rely on anybody. Could you imagine a kid that started his college fund with a can collection and built that college fund up to once pay his way through college and not have any student loans? That’s the kind of power I’m talking about in teaching these kids how to be self-sufficient and not live a life full of zombies staring at a TV or a computer screen.”