Special Love’s hallmark program, Camp Fantastic, built on last year’s triumphant post-COVID return with more campers, more staff, and more fun! Forty-nine children in various stages of treatment gathered for […]
April 1-7th was Adolescent and Young Adults Cancer Awareness Week! Our new Development Associate, Luke Child is sharing his story this month to help us raise awareness for AYA Cancer! […]
Join us for 1 or all 3 of our Summer Celebration Days in June/July! Our first day is July 12th at Smokey Glen Farm in Gaithersburg, MD, then July 14th […]
Special Love volunteers and former campers Serena Wade (above left) and Olivia Adams (above right) hosted “Winter Chill,” a night of painting and socializing in late January for Special […]
Mad Science gave more than 30 campers and their parents a chance to try fun experiments on everything from conducting electricity to, and even making artificial snow. When Dr. Diane leads a […]
Sarah Rostock Who doesn’t love a good love story? From The Notebook to Romeo and Juliet everyone has their favorite! This may sound the cheesiest of cheesy, but my favorite […]
Ryan pictured center with the tennis class at Camp Fantastic When I was asked to write a blog for Special Love and what the transition was like from Camper to […]
The following is excerpted an essay written by our very own Julia Jones (below left) for World Harvest Outreach. I hope you enjoy it as much as we did: For […]
On the Monday night of camp for more than ten years now, it’s been a camp tradition to plant a tree on the grounds of the Northern Virginia 4-H Education […]
There’s a pediatric oncology unit in Brazil that’s trying out a fairly clever idea. They’re using comic books and superheroes to explain chemotherapy to children. Kids are given their drugs in super-hero branded IV containers and given comics and animated cartoons which depict heroes like Batman, Superman, and the Green Lantern getting similar “superformulas” to help them regain their powers.