Eserv running for a cause: MAGICAMP

Beneficiaries: Children between 6 and 15 years old, having been diagnosed with cancer.

Context:

For a child and his/her family, cancer, apart from the shock of the news itself, brings about a radical change in lifestyle, completely redifining the challenges everybody is being confronted with. The whole care and resources are aimed at benefitting the sick child and at helping him/her to survive. The time spent with the family , the joy, the play are all replaced by radiotherapy, chemotherapy, doctors’ appointments, investigations and painful medical procedures. Family celebrations and family members’ birthdays go unnoticed. There are no more vacations, only hospitalisations. There are no more campings, only trips to the hospital. The emotional challenges – to say the least – that the child and his/her family go through are hard to imagine for the rest of us, and the brunt is usually borne by the child.

The solution:

The first thing we are supposed to give back to these children is the play.

At MagiCamp, things are simple: for a week, everything else is forgotten while we focus on nothing but play – music, dance, archery, magic, forest theme parks, horse riding, theater, superstars surprise visits, swimming pools, zip line, camp fires and all the “crazy stuff” children enjoy doing, everything being thoroughly prepared and discretely kept under watch by professional animators and psychologists, and of course by the little patients’ doctors. Specialists call everything happening at MagiCamp therapeutical recreation.