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Camp Ronald McDonald for Good Times is a California-based charitable camp for children with cancer. The camp was established in 1982 by Pepper Edmiston, a Los Angeles woman whose oldest son, David, had leukemia. Edmiston couldn’t find a summer camp that would take a boy with cancer, so she started her own camp, one that would be free to young ...
SeriousFun Children's Network is a global community of 30 camps and programs for seriously ill children. [1] All camps and programs offer free recreational experiences to children with serious illnesses and their family members. [2] [3] The first SeriousFun camp was launched in 1988 by founder Paul Newman.
CISV International (formerly Children's International Summer Villages) is an international non-governmental organisation based in England that hosts camp-based programmes and events for children that aim to promote hands-on learning and intercultural friendships with a focus on peace education. [2]
The American Camp Association (ACA), formerly known as the American Camping Association, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that serves the United States.It is an association for camp owners, camp professionals and others interested in summer camps and similar camp programs.
Santa Paula Community Center in Tonalá, Jalisco, México. Known in its earlier years as "Holy Land Christian Mission," Children International was founded in 1936. [23] The organization distributed food baskets to widows and poor families, provided early childhood education [24] and operated a small medical clinic as well as a children’s home for orphans.
After witnessing the plight of Vietnamese children in 1963, Princess Grace founded the Association to support the fundamental rights of children across the globe. [1] AMADE's code of conduct was later influenced by the Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted by the United Nations in 1989, as well as the Millennium Declaration adopted in 2000 to fight against poverty.
A humanitarian organization in northeastern Mexico said it did not create flyers urging migrants to vote for President Joe Biden that were filmed at its shelter in a viral video that sparked a ...
Team Hole in the Wall is an athletic fundraising initiative managed by the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp. [6] Amateur athletes join up to raise a specified amount of funds and receive entrance to a marathon, bike ride or other athletic event in support of seriously ill children served by The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp or one of its associated camps around the world.