Featured Families

Each year, Camp Sunshine offers countless families the opportunity to put aside the stress and seriousness of having a child with a life-threatening illness and just have fun. It costs $2,000 a week for a family to attend Camp Sunshine, but thanks to the compassion of people like you, families like those youʼll see profiled below are able to attend COMPLETELY FREE OF CHARGE.

The Van Beveren Family from San Antonio, Texas

Our youngest daughter, Leah, was diagnosed with cancer at 8 weeks of age. She began chemotherapy at 3 months, and before her first birthday had endured more than anyone should in a lifetime. Sheʼs since had over 20 surgeries, including the removal of her left eye. We discovered Camp Sunshine through an online support group, and have visited each of the last four years for retinoblastoma week. Itʼs the one week that we can just drop everything and just “be.” The friends weʼve met there (both families and volunteers) have become an extended family of sorts, and we keep up with them throughout the year. But most of all, Camp Sunshine gives Leah (now a healthy 7 year-old) the chance to be with other children with Rb who have a prosthetic eye, knowing that for one week, she really is “just like everyone else.”