2009 Camp TLC - A Success Like No Other

Each summer SBANT partners with Camp John Marc to offer the best camping experience available for young people living with Spina Bifida. Camp John Marc offers a beautiful Texas setting in Bosque County, where they promise to provide a high-quality camp experience for ill and physically disabled children while partnering with community and medical professionals. One look at the faces of the 2009 Camp TLC campers from the Spina Bifida week in June and you will agree they delivered the goods.

For more than 17 years, campers with Spina Bifida have loaded up on buses like many other North Texas kids going to summer camp. With a hearty fair well to parents, even the youngest campers are quickly swept away in the adventure as the buses pull out of the parking lot with the help of more than 25 volunteers. Every camper hopes to have that summer camp experience of getting dirty, playing in the water, riding a horse, making crafts and meeting new friends. Camp TLC delivers all of the traditional summer camp activities and much more including with night activities, camp fires, opportunities to participate in skits, singing and this year even an amazing camp theme - Night at the Museum.

Camp TLC campers love the freedom to just be kids, in a beautiful place where their physical differences are not noticed. With 100 campers, opportunities to try exciting activities, meet new friends and build new support systems is what camp is all about. Kids with Spina Bifida are no different – kids just want to have fun! Thanks to more than 125 volunteers, donations from SBANT supporters, families willing to share their wonderful children, and campers with adventurous minds - the 2009 Camp TLC was a HUGE success!

More pictures of the event are below.