Summer camp season is just around the corner!

Hopefully one to come, without disruptions. Shaker Heights eighth grader Jacquelin Anzo is counting down the days until she returns to camp. “Fishing, the archery, the arts and crafts,” she said. “It’s just the small things that make it feel like a home away from home.”

Like other kids with serious illnesses, she found that home at Flying Horse Farms in Mount Gilead, a camp designed to provide transformative experiences for kids who need medical support.

“They're with each other and they have that special circumstance that no one else has been able to connect with,” said her mom, Tina Anzo. “[Jacquelin]wants to be the first to arrive and the last to be picked up.”

For the last two years, the pandemic made summers quiet for Flying Horse Farms. “Many children with serious illnesses experience isolation, pandemic or not,” said Chief Mission Officer Dani Wilkinson. “We have always focused on creating connections, that sense of belonging and creating opportunities for children and families to make friends.”

Camps are experiencing a surge of registrations for day and overnight programs…as parents feel safer to engage their kids with meaningful connections and socialization opportunities. With multilayered mitigation strategies and covid cases on a steep decline now, they hope it will look more like the summer of 2019.

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