On May 17, COCA-I will join more than one hundred advocates as part of the Alliance for Childhood Cancer hitting the halls of Congress in Washington, DC to “STEP UP” for children and families at Childhood Cancer Action Days. http://www.allianceforchildhoodcancer.org Care camps will be part of the collective chorus...
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Thomas Weber, owner of Chicago Northwest KOA, helps a young baker prepare a dessert during a learning session at the recent One Step Winter Camp sponsored by Children’s Oncology Services, Inc., of Chicago. Connect-A-Camp, an initiative started in 2014 to link more KOA owners and managers with a KOA...
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Seven years ago, the lives of Howard and Cyndy Livingston were changed forever, a change that has brought happiness and comfort to thousands of children with cancer. His new band was booked to play at a 2008 event at the Sugarloaf Key/Key West KOA, not far from his home...
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Care Camps Executive Director and owner of Cardinal/Ottawa South KOA, Karen McAndrew, recently visited Camp Quality Eastern Ontario in Lanark and wrote a beautiful story on her experience and trip there! “I recently had the pleasure of visiting Camp Quality Eastern Ontario in Lanark which is about one and...
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Read MoreLorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It...
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Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It...
Read MoreKamp KACE (Kids Against Cancer Everywhere), one of 94 camps that received funding from KOA Care Camps in 2014, plans to build a memorial garden in spring 2015. The memorial garden is a special place for kids with cancer, their siblings and parents to visit and remember young friends...
Read MoreKOA Care Camps was recognized in the fall edition of the “LoveLetter” produced by Special Love, Inc., the nonprofit organization that started Camp Fantastic in Front Royal, Va., in 1983. The biannual newsletter is sent to 7,000 people and highlights Special Love’s efforts to lift the spirits of children...
Read MoreIt has been a year full of fundraising milestones for KOA Care Camps. Children with cancer have a great time in the outdoors at these medically supervised camps, which have received funds from the KOA Care Camps Trust since it was started in 1984. For the first time, annual...
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