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skills through their success in the challenges. They also learnt the importance of having fun and acquired a more positive attitude to their illness as they realised they are not alone and that many other children also have similar conditions. These realisations and developments rebuild confidence and esteem that had been damaged in the children.
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and provides its services free of charge to all of the children that attend the camps. To do this, they raise €8 million annually to cover their costs. The majority of the money comes from voluntary sources including individual donors, events and corporate supporters. One example of their fundraising
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and more than twenty other
European countries to take part in activities the camp provides such as arts and crafts, canoeing and outdoor adventure. After successfully overcoming the initial challenge of these activities, the camp says that children stop seeing themselves as 'sick kids' and begin to
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A 2005 study on children who attended
Barretstown found that the majority of children noted an improvement in their social skills after attending the camp. They acquired skills such as teamwork, cooperation, and friendship making. The children also reported acquiring practical and activity-related
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The programme of therapeutic recreation the camp provides is widely endorsed by many leading medical professionals in
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Discovery. By getting comfortable in the protected and safe camp environment, the children begin to realise their previously unrecognised potential, through meeting the challenges with success, which has an enormous effect on their confidence and self-esteem.
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The diagnosis of a serious illness at an early age, and the subsequent lengthy process of treatment and hospital visits are likely to result in a lack of confidence and self-esteem in most children, so
Barretstown tries to rebuild their confidence and esteem.
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Barretstown is known as a
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While hospitals are intended to take care of the physical aspects of serious illness in a child, Barretstown plays a vital role in healing the effects of emotional scars.
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