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Salkehatchie Summer Service on Edisto Island

A week of home repairs for our neighbors

Every summer, youth and adult volunteers spend a week on Edisto Island fixing homes for local families: roofs, wiring, water damage, and plumbing. The camp is led by the Whitesell family, longtime EIUMC members.

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Two young Salkehatchie volunteers, dusty from work, kneeling inside a house being repaired
Two of the camp's volunteers on a repair site.

The 4th annual Edisto Island camp

youth and adult volunteers
~80
local families' homes repaired
7

Salkehatchie overall

families helped since the first camp in 1978
6,000+

What changes, on both sides

Families get safer homes. The teenagers and young adults who do the work come home changed too.

For the families

Critical repairs

Repairs at the 4th annual camp included:

  1. Damaged roofs
  2. Unsafe wiring
  3. Water damage
  4. Outdated plumbing

For the campers

Learning to serve

Campers learn to lead and to serve by doing the work. They leave with deeper faith, confidence using tools, and the pride of helping a neighbor live more safely.

One island, many churches

Fed and housed by the whole island

Campers and volunteers stay at Trinity Church for the week. Through the Edisto Island Ministerial Alliance, churches across the island provide meals and support for all of the roughly 80 participants.

Nancie's Clothes Closet pays for many of the meals, so shopping there helps fund the camp.

Nancie's Clothes Closet hours

Ways to help

Salkehatchie is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Local businesses and individuals can give money, give in kind, or pray.

Give money

Give directly to the Edisto Island Salkehatchie camp.

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Shop the Closet

Nancie's Clothes Closet pays for many of the campers' meals.

Store hours
About the name

Salkehatchie is a river that flows through South Carolina's coastal plain. Rev. John Culp started the first Salkehatchie camp in the Lowcountry in 1978.