13TH ANNUAL SUMMER CAMP • SINCE 2013

STATE OF BEING

One week of adventure Camping, Community Service, fun & more Camp Adventure Africa Initiative (CAA)
August 23 – 30, 2026 • Erin Ijesha, Osun & Ipole Ekiti

The 2026 Edition: State of Being This year's camp - our 13th consecutive annual edition carries the theme STATE OF BEING. It is an invitation to go inward: to step away from the noise of everyday life, the pull of social media, the pressure of performance, and to ask the most important question you may ever face: Who are you, really?

One week of adventure Camping, Community Service, fun & more

From August 23 – 30, 2026

Venue : Erin Ijesha, Osun & Ipole Ekiti

Registration: ₦70,000

13TH ANNUAL SUMMER CAMP • SINCE 2013

Summer Camp 2026

Introduction to Camp Adventure Africa Initiative

Camp Adventure Africa Initiative (CAA) is a youth-led, non-governmental, non-religious, and not-for-profit organisation committed to inspiring, equipping, and transforming the lives of children, youth, and families in rural communities across Africa. Founded on a deep conviction that young people are not just the leaders of tomorrow but the changemakers of today, CAA has spent over a decade creating platforms where purpose meets adventure.The CAA Summer Camp is one of the organisation's flagship programmes, an immersive, high-energy, week-long outreach that takes young leaders across extraordinary natural landscapes, bringing them face to face with communities, with nature, and with themselves. Since its inaugural edition in 2013, the summer camp has grown into one of the most anticipated youth transformation experiences in Nigeria, with participants returning year after year and many going on to become volunteer leaders and community champions.

Years of Annual Summer Camps

Rural communities per camp

Countries with CAA presence

10000+

Young leaders impacted

About the Camping Locations.

The 2026 CAA Summer Camp cuts across two states and six extraordinary natural and cultural sites in South-West Nigeria. Each location has been carefully selected for its raw beauty, its spiritual depth, its ecological significance, and its story. The adventure will traverse communities in Osun and Ekiti States, from rushing waterfalls to ancient villages, from ridge-top mountain climbs to sacred warm springs.

Erin Ijesha Waterfalls

OSUN STATE — BASE CAMP

One of Nigeria’s most magnificent natural wonders, Erin Ijesha (Olumirin) Waterfalls cascades across seven tiers of lush tropical forest. Our camp begins here, immersed in the sights, sounds, and spirit of one of West Africa’s most awe-inspiring landscapes. It is both a gateway and a declaration: we are entering something sacred.

4.5

Obake Village

OSUN STATE

An ancient, serene rural community nestled in the hills. Obake offers campers an unfiltered encounter with traditional African village life, its rhythms, its wisdom, and its remarkable warmth. Here we slow down, listen, and learn what it means to simply be present in a place where the world has not yet been hurried.

4.5

Efon Ridge Mountain

EKITI STATE

Towering over the surrounding landscape, Efon Ridge is a mountain climbing challenge as spiritual as it is physical. The ascent demands everything you have, and the summit rewards with panoramic views that reframe your sense of scale, your sense of self, and your sense of what is possible.

4.5

Baruwa Village

EKITI STATE

A welcoming rural community where our outreach work comes alive. Here, campers engage in meaningful community service alongside locals, distributing welfare, engaging with children and families, and sharing life across culture and generation. Baruwa is a reminder of why we come.

4.5

1 hour 10 mins

Arita Waterfalls

EKITI STATE

A breathtaking hidden cascade tucked in tropical forest, less visited, more sacred. Arita is one of those rare places that feel untouched by the pace of modern life: a natural temple for silence, swimming, and inner discovery. Some call it the best-kept secret in Ekiti.

4.5

Ikogosi Warm Spring

EKITI STATE

One of Nigeria’s most extraordinary natural phenomena, where a warm spring and a cold stream meet without mixing. Ikogosi is a fitting metaphor for this camp: where different lives, backgrounds, and stories converge into something beautiful and whole.

4.5

🛡️ Your Safety Is Our First Commitment All CAA Summer Camp sites are carefully vetted and operated in full partnership with local community leaders, traditional royal fathers (Obas and Baales), and relevant state and community stakeholders. We do not enter any community without the blessing and active collaboration of those who call it home. Our experienced camp coordinators maintain safety protocols at every site, and emergency response plans are in place throughout the camp. You are going into the wild but you are never going unprotected. spiritual depth, its ecological significance, and its story. The adventure will traverse communities in Osun and Ekiti States, from rushing waterfalls to ancient villages, from ridge-top mountain climbs to sacred warm springs.

Why You Should Attend

You could spend your August the ordinary way. Or you could spend eight days doing something that will still matter to you in twenty years. Here is why this camp is worth every moment:.

Encounter a Deeper Version of Yourself

Beneath the routines, the roles, and the expectations, there is a version of you that you haven’t fully met yet. This camp creates the conditions - silence, nature, honest community for that encounter to happen.

Lead with Purpose, Not Just Position

CAA’s leadership training goes beyond theory. Through lived experience, navigating terrain, serving communities, resolving tensions, you develop the kind of leadership that only real pressure can produce.

Give Back in a Way That Actually Changes Things

Our community service is not performative. We show up to communities that know us, where we’ve built relationships over years. Your outreach here will be real, felt, and remembered.

Build Unshakeable Community

The friends you make at camp are different from any others. You’ve faced a mountain together. You’ve served together. You’ve told the truth around a fire together. That kind of bond lasts decades.

Reconnect with Africa’s Beauty and Heritage

Many Nigerians have never seen Ikogosi Warm Spring or stood at the summit of Efon Ridge. This camp gives you Nigeria, its waterfalls, mountains, villages, and people, up close and unfiltered.

Get Offline and Get Alive

Eight days away from the scroll. Eight days with your thoughts, your people, your breath, and the African forest. The silence will not be empty, it will be full of everything you’ve been too busy to hear.

Activity Highlights

Outdoor Adventure

Mountain Climbing – Efon Ridge: A physical and spiritual ascent up one of Ekiti’s most dramatic ridgelines. Every step upward is a confrontation with your own limits and a chance to transcend them.
Waterfall Treks & Swimming: From the multi-tiered majesty of Erin Ijesha to the hidden wonder of Arita Falls, trek through forest paths and plunge into Nigeria’s most pristine natural waters.
Ikogosi Warm Spring Experience: A visit to one of Nigeria’s most unique natural phenomena. Time for contemplation, connection, and one of nature’s most profound metaphors.
Team Navigation Challenges: Reading trails, working as a team, solving terrain puzzles, under pressure, with a lot of laughs.
Village Walks & Cultural Exchange: Immersive walks through Obake and Baruwa communities, meeting elders, learning local crafts, sharing meals.

Fun, Bonding & Culture

Night Skits & Talent Show: Campers take the stage. Comedy, drama, spoken word, and surprise performances.
Music, Dance & Cultural Nights: Celebrating Africa’s diversity through song, rhythm, and the kind of dancing that needs no choreography.
Communal Feasts: Shared breakfast and dinner every day, good food, great company, and conversations that last.
Sunrise Moments: Waking before the world does. Standing on a ridge as the sky turns gold.
Tent & Hall Life: The chaos of setting up camp, the midnight conversations, the shared mornings. This is where the real bonding happens.

Fun & Adventure.

Transformation doesn’t always look like a seminar. Sometimes it looks like sliding down a waterfall, laughing so hard you cry, or watching the sun rise over a ridge you climbed in the dark. CAA camp is deeply serious about joy. The CAA Summer Camp is designed so that every hour, whether spent hiking, cooking, performing, or simply lying under the stars, is memorable. Here is a taste of what you will experience:

Swimming and playing in the natural pools of Erin Ijesha and Arita Waterfalls
Night talent show, comedy, drama, spoken word, music, freestyle
Dance circles and cultural nights celebrating Africa’s diversity of sound and rhythm
Team relay games and outdoor competitions in the forest and open fields

Photography sessions at Nigeria’s most dramatic landscapes
Midnight conversations and sunrise moments that become permanent memories
The irreplaceable chaos and warmth of tent life and communal living
Discovering a side of Nigeria you didn’t know existed and falling in love with it

Every camper leaves transformed — equipped to influence their world with courage, creativity, and compassion. But first, they leave having had the time of their lives.

Community Service & Impact

The CAA Summer Camp is not a retreat from the world, it is a training ground for those who want to change it. Every year, campers move through rural communities not as tourists, but as servants and learners. We serve alongside the people we visit, and we leave something meaningful behind. This year, our outreach will touch communities across Erin Ijesha, Obake, and Baruwa villages, bringing welfare support, educational engagement, health awareness, and the simple but profound gift of presence to families who rarely receive visitors.

We do not enter any community as strangers. We enter as people who have been welcomed, who have earned trust over years of consistent presence and genuine service. CAA’s Summer Camp is proof that young people can lead social transformation — not after they’ve ‘arrived’, but right now, exactly as they are.

Registration & What’s Included.

CAMP DATES : August 23 – 30, 2026
DURATION : 8 Days / 7 Nights
LOCATIONS : Erin Ijesha (Osun State) & Ipole Ekiti (Ekiti State)
REGISTRATION FEE : ₦70,000 — All-inclusive per camper
MEETING POINT : To be communicated upon registration

Note: Lunch is not included in the camp fee. Campers are advised to bring personal snacks, medications, personal toiletries, and any specific dietary items they may require. A full packing list will be sent upon registration.

What Your Registration Covers

The registration fee of ₦70,000 covers the following:

Accommodation throughout the camp – hall and tent camping across all sites
Feeding – breakfast and dinner provided daily for all 8 days
Transportation from the designated meeting point and back to the meeting point
All inter-community movement and transportation between camp sites
All facilitated leadership and personal development sessions
All outdoor adventure and programme activities
Community outreach materials and coordination
Safety and emergency coordination throughout the camp

Camp materials, journals, and certificates of participation

Thirteen years ago, a group of young Africans decided that the greatest adventure was not just in the wild — it was within.

Since then, we have walked rivers, climbed mountains, served villages, and held circles around fires across some of Nigeria’s most sacred landscapes. And every single year, something remarkable happens: people arrive as one version of themselves and leave as another. Larger. Freer. More rooted. More alive.

This August, the 13th Annual CAA Summer Camp invites you to answer the most important question you’ll ever face. Not on a screen. Not in a lecture hall. But standing at the summit of a mountain you weren’t sure you could climb, swimming beneath a waterfall you didn’t know existed, sitting in silence as the African night opens above you and asks:

“Who are you, really?”

Come as you are.

Leave as who you were always meant to be.