This message has been long overdue. I was meaning to send it two years ago when Loompaland made its début, and when, by pure luck, I decided to enroll my son in your summer program. It may have been pure luck two years ago, but it certainly isn’t luck this year. Your enthusiasm, transparency, positive energy and constant challenging programs make you pioneers in my eyes, and in the eyes of my son, who has been bragging in front of his friend about being an Oompa and nagging to go to Loompaland since last summer, when we unfortunately did not make it to Lebanon. To be honest I was skeptical at first. The program you promised at the beginning of this summer was very ambitious. I felt you were almost setting yourselves up for failure! The values, the activities, the fun, the learning, the online application (and all its components from the journal to the bus tracking, to messages…), the training of the Loompas, paying it forward… so so much! I thought to myself “they’re really not making it easy on themselves! Will they be accountable for all these promises? And over 200 Oompas on their hands!”… I should have known better than to doubt you though because you deliver… EVERY SINGLE DAY!! My son Hassan is not one to enjoy any kind of disciplined activities, he likes to do things his way… but not with Loompaland! He is up first thing in the morning, ready for the day ahead. To him he is having fun… loads of fun, making new friends, going to water parks and to the wild, playing sports, music, drama… But to me I see beyond, and I am so proud. Proud of the conversations we have after a day at Loompaland, proud of what is being instilled in my son: core values often not taught at school, but crucial for any boy who will grow up to be a good human being and a good citizen bringing about positive change in his environment. I’m proud of what he is learning as a mother, as an educator and as a Lebanese citizen. Your ability to give and the way you deal with those kids is not usual in this day and age, it is actually rare. The way you high-five the Oompas, how you drop down to their eye-level when you talk to them, your smiles, your patience, your kindness and undivided attention… many details that may be small, but that make you big. Big in the eyes of the parents who want the best for their children, and who are ever so grateful for the opportunities you are offering their precious ones. I wish you luck today and every day, now and in the future, and I will be looking forward to the remaining activities you are planning for this summer.

To the Loompas I say: Your choice wasn’t wrong, you didn’t dream for nothing, you have only to be grateful to your management that allowed you to live the professional way of doing things where we are surrounded by non professionals! To the Oompas I say: Say thanks to your parents that gave you the chance to live such a family spirit inside Loompaland Summer Camp where a lot of children like you are not finding their own families! For Loompaland Summer Camp I say: Your work, your beliefs, your perseverance, your long hours of hard work were truly remarkable but trust me all those were nothing if you didn’t have the T E A M spirit, that as O Club we were so proud and honored to work with such a PRO TEAM! Men el alb and on behalf of O Club Team, all the best and more to come…

You are a real experienced family with whom our children are feeling so happy, at ease, safe & mostly loved…
Always the best is yet to come, and hoping to be able to catch all your coming activities!

Well from now my kids want to register for next summer! Thank you for all the great activities & the care you showed towards our kids!

Wow wow wow … I can’t thank you enough for everything u did this summer… You put a big smile on our kids faces! Wonderful ceremony and event, kids were really very cute…. U are really the best LOOMPALAND!

Dear Loompas, what a successful beneficial sportive funny month our Oompas had experienced.As Loompa Hammad said, it was really from heart to heart. Yesterday you told us that the Oompas have awaken the child spirit in you; what I want to assure you is that you all dear Loompaland family have awaken in every parent of us the child spirit and soul. A very big thank you to you all!