Tzviah

My shy, introverted, skinny, 17 year old niece in Maryland needs a sleep-away job for this coming summer of 2009. She's got more than her share of emotional baggage left over from her parents' divorce ten years ago. She graduates High School May 31st and needs to get away from her divorced parents for the summer. She's lived with her mom (a full-time Professor /single parent) until last year, when the teenage angst became too much for her mom and the teen moved in with her father on the other side of town. The teen's father is a withdrawn, morose, recluse and an uncaring belligerent tyrant who delights in verbally abusing her. She's spent every weekend this year living at her loving maternal grandparents home. It was the grandparents who taught her to drive, and they found her an after-school job in a retail store this year; and the teen did well at the job. The grandparents are getting too old and frail and tired and ill to keep her for the entire summer. But she needs to get far away from her intolerant/intolerable parents for June, July and August. She's going away to college in the fall, but this coming summer is looming as a big problem that must be solved. Does anyone have any ideas? Is there a farm that could use a hand? She's barely 100 lbs, so I can't imagine her baling hay or mucking out the barn, but maybe help in the kitchen? or something? Is there a family-run small resort that could hire her for their housekeeping staff for looking after the linens or to set up the tables for meals, or something like that, where there are dorms or cabins for the staff to live in during the season? She's not old enough nor does she have any experience to be a children's camp counselor. She's not a street-wise person, so it has to be a wholesome situation. Please reply to me at Tzviah27aol.com