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Article: MDA seeks volunteers for summer camp
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- Dayton Daily News
- Article date:
- November 17, 2005
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The Muscular Dystrophy Association is searching for summer camp
volunteers to help young people with neuromuscular diseases enjoy fun-
filled, weeklong MDA summer camps across the United States.
Volunteer counselors must be at least 16 years old and able to
lift and care for a young person between the ages of 6 and 21.
Each counselor becomes a companion to a camper with a
neuromuscular disease. The volunteers help their campers with daily
activities such as eating, bathing and dressing, and in recreational
activities such as arts and crafts, swimming and horseback riding.
"Young people with neuromuscular diseases look forward to MDA camp
every year because it's a place where barriers ...