By Emily Rivers | Project Leader
Having a facial difference can be a very lonely and overwhelming experience. Many children who have facial differences experience staring, taunting and bullying on a daily basis, and in turn often struggle with loneliness and depression.
Today, you can help provide a life-changing experience to a child living with a facial difference - send them to Camp Trailblazers and take them from exclusion to inclusion. You can help provide this life changing experience for 12 children from Saskatchewan by enabling them to attend Camp Trailblazers in Manitoba this September. Because of where they live, there are no programs like this near them, and often not a lot of support nearby.
Some of these children have never met anyone else with a facial difference and often feel alone and isolated in their communities. It is so important for them to know that they are not alone in their journey with a facial difference.
100% of your donation will go towards covering all costs including air travel to our camp in Manitoba, food, accommodations, programming and lots of fun.
You will make a difference to these 12 children. At Camp Trailblazers, they get to explore and discover their abilities, interests and challenges in a supportive environment. A circle of friends will allow them to safely open up and share some of their most painful experiences of living with a facial difference. It will empower them, build resilience and allow them to embrace their difference. Camp Trailblazers will change their lives.
"She ran off the bus straight towards me, and with not even a hello she blurted out, "Can I go next year???" All the way home, I got to hear her delightful experiences at camp. She was truly amazed that there were others with cleft lip and palate – even though we go to the hospital clinic, she has never met anyone else like her. She wears her Camp Trailblazers t-shirt at least 3 days of the week. She even did a project at school on Camp Trailblazers. When I look at the pictures that have been posted of camp, she looks a bit quiet and reserved, but she insists that she had the best time ever! I have started a scrapbook of her experiences at Camp Trailblazers, so she can look back on her memories in the years to come. Thank you Camp Trailblazers and AboutFace for being there for her and all the other children!" - Camper's mom
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