Camp Arctic: Where Kids with Juvenile Arthritis Can be Kids

By Caslon Hatch Channel 2 News

9:15 a.m. AKDT, June 26, 2013

ANCHORAGE, Alaska— 

 

Summer camp is a place where kids just want to be kids -- but when you’re a kid with juvenile arthritis, summer camp activities also mean struggling through joint pain.
Camp Arctic is not your average summer camp, it’s a place where families can come together, specifically families with children who suffer from juvenile arthritis.
Camp Arctic encourages kids to reach their full potential no matter their challenges and to live beyond the boundaries of arthritis.
Rebecca Williams’s daughter, 13-year-old DaiJenae Townes, was diagnosed with juvenile arthritis just a few months ago.
“Through four years of blood doctors and rheumatologist and OPA doctors we were diagnosed March 22^nd with juvenile arthritis,” Williams said.

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