Big news for Halloween fans--Hands4Hope and Scare Away Hunger have merged their haunted houses! Hands4Hope has scared the living daylights out of you and your friends in El Dorado Hills the past 5 years, and Scare Away Hunger has been frightening Cameron Park for even longer.
This year the two organizations have teamed up to make Halloween absolutely terrifying. Both groups empower young people and have a long history of community service. The resulting joint organization Scare4Hope will be collecting food for the local food bank, who received a $1,700 check and a coffin full of food from Scare Away Hunger’s brief two-night run last year. Hands4Hope was open for three weekends, collecting over $16,000 to help fund service learning programs that allow young people the opportunity to change lives as active citizens in their community.
To stay true to the mission of both organizations, Scare4Hope is youth led. It is organized in such a fashion as to mimic a functioning production company with the end product being an incredibly scary and entertaining haunted house, the management and staff being youth, and the goals being to raise funds, build life and career skills, and have fun. The youth management of this company will be mentored by adults with current or past career experience in their area of focus.
“Taking power away from the adults is going to be tricky,” jokes Doug Busch, former Intel CIO and long-time Hands4Hope Board member and supporter. “However, both groups have spent years learning what sets people off. I have no doubt this mix of ideas from these independent sources is going to yield something scary, satisfying, and unsurpassed by any haunted house El Dorado Hills or Cameron Park has ever seen.”
Construction on the 2015 Scare4Hope Haunted House has already began in the El Dorado Hills Town Center while much of the prep work has already taken place.
Follow progress of the haunted house on Facebook at El Dorado Haunted House and on our website at www.eldoradohauntedhouse.com. Plan on attending the Scare4Hope haunted house this fall in El Dorado Hills Town Center. You won’t leave disappointed. You may not leave at all.
Hands4Hope is a non-profit youth driven service learning and outreach organization based in El Dorado County whose mission is to empower youth to make a positive difference in the world around them through Exploration, Action, and Leadership. Scare Away Hunger is a youth organization dedicated to collecting food and raising money for local food banks by hosting a haunted house.
For more information about the Scare4Hope Haunted House, visit www.eldoradohaunted.com or call the Hands4Hope Youth Center at 916-294-7426.
