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Deputation: Item 5.1 - Bill McMeekan, Camp Oochigeas, Summer Camp for Children with Cancer

My Story… Cancer Affects Us All

Cancer Changes A Child’s Life. So Does Camp.

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More Than A Camp.

• IN-HOSPITAL: Ooch runs programs for children and their

families year-round, seven days and four nights a week at the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and weekly at a number of other hospitals. These programs bring the Magic of Ooch where it’s needed most.

• OOCH DOWNTOWN: This one-of-a-kind facility lets the

Magic of Ooch live year-round. It provides programs that are especially important for children who are too sick to go to Camp, or for whom going to overnight camp is too big of a stretch.

DONOR ORS M MAKE A KE A DIFFER FFERENCE CE.

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p Ooc Ooch Musk skoka a had more c e camper ers t s than e ever r bef efore th this seas eason… a a to total of 596, 596, th thanks to to th the generosi sity o y of private te donors! s!

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sending a all k kids s with th c cancer cer, in n Ontari tario t to camp.

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Let’s s chang hange thi this! s!

DONOR ORS M MAKE A KE A DIFFER FFERENCE CE.

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