Meet Chip, Legacy Donor and Camp Volunteer

“Camp is filled with amazing people—kind, caring, compassionate and empathetic. Our role as volunteers is 100% focused on campers, ensuring they have a great day, regardless of how exhausted we may be. Yet, in many ways, it’s an easy job. Kids just want to be kids and the bonus for me is that, even at my age, I get to feel and act like a kid again. No matter how silly the game may be, the campers don’t judge, and you get to be just as silly as them.

While I’ll always love camp, it’s the work Campfire Circle does in the hospital that really moves me. Just thinking about kids who are scared and alone facing a world of needles and IVs—and then there is this burst of sunshine from the Campfire Circle In-Hospital Program Specialists, where they get a reprieve and an opportunity to just have fun and be a kid again. And I believe that helps pull them through the acute phase of their disease.

Putting Campfire Circle as a beneficiary in our Wills was an easy decision as it resonates with our family. Our own children will be looked after as well, but the entire family agrees that helping to continue Campfire Circle’s unique work is important, even after we’re gone.”

— Chip, Legacy Donor and Volunteer

If Chip’s story inspires you to reflect on your own wishes about leaving a gift in your Will to Campfire Circle, you are invited and encouraged to contact Laura for a confidential conversation at lgibson@campfirecircle.org or 416-961-6624 x ext. 229.