Buy a coffee and help turn a kid鈥檚 life around.

Do so by dropping into one of the local Tim Hortons locations Wednesday, June 1 during Tim Hortons Camp Day.

Proceeds from coffee sales 鈥� and donations 鈥� will help send economically disadvantaged children to a camp in Kananaskis, Alta.

This year, seven children from the Comox Valley will be sent to Kananaskis 鈥� one of six camps in Canada offered by the Tim Horton Children鈥檚 Foundation. A seventh is located in Kentucky, USA.

鈥淭he kids that we select from the Valley come from the various elementary schools,鈥� said Steven Caissie, who manages the four local Tim Hortons. 鈥淲e have all the schools on a rotational basis. If it wasn鈥檛 for this opportunity, there probably wouldn鈥檛 be an opportunity for them to go to camp.鈥�

One camper from a previous year is going back for the Youth Leadership Program 鈥� a five-level program designed to teach lifelong leadership skills.

Canada-wide last year, the Tim Hortons chain raised about $12 million during the June 1 event. The four Valley locales raised about $15,400, with some money raised beforehand.

Camp Day has been operating more than two decades.