Join 'The Roots'
Grow Hope Every Month
Your monthly gift fuels life-changing programs for children and families facing cancer.
By joining The Roots, our monthly giving community, you provide consistent, life-changing support for children battling cancer. Just $25 a month ensures that kids can experience the magic of Camp Reach for the Sky—free of charge. Together, we’re stronger. Together, we’re mighty.
Together we are mighty.
We are OAK, a charity on a mission to ensure no child feels alone when dealing with cancer. Since 1983, more than 25,000 kids battling cancer and their siblings have attended our flagship program, Camp Reach for the Sky, and built their own unique peer support community. Year after year they make sure to let the world know that cancer doesn't define them.
200+
Volunteers, Counselors & Medical Staff
2205+
Family members impacted annually
500+
Children helped annually
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Cost to patients & family to attend camping sessions
Testimonials
The Roots monthly giving program is composed of authentic, inspirational, and courageous individuals such as yourself! From graduated campers, parents, or volunteers, OAK has transformed thousands of lives afflicted by childhood cancer, providing a safe space for kids to just be kids again. Join the OAK family and help create roots that will grow for a lifetime!
Volunteers
"I came late to the game of Sibs Camp. Not getting involved as a volunteer until I was in my late 50s. I watched 3 of my 4 kids volunteer every summer. I would listen as they told their camp stories, wipe away the tears after an exceptionally emotional and tiring weekend, and laugh along with them at camp jokes, I envied them. The weeks they spent at camp changed them. I felt this desire to join in that connection. As soon as the campers step off the bus that first day you see their joy. You hear their sighs of relief. You see their eyes light up when they spy on a favorite counselor and throw their arms around them in a big hug. Camp is home."
Campers
"If I was given the chance to change my experience with cancer. I wouldn't. The connections I've made with campers, volunteers, parents, nurses, and peers are far too valuable in my life to ever consider changing. I often find myself thinking of all of these amazing people I'm best friends with and how lucky I am. But at the same time, if I didn't have cancer, we would have never met. How absolutely shitty but amazing is that? Camp gave me my best friends. Camp gave me the only people who I know I can 100% be myself around and I know they will love me. Camp gave me a family that understands the lifelong effects that battling cancer as a child cause."
Parents
"All the time I get, "Why have you volunteered for CR4TS for 18 years? What keeps you coming back?". Yes, it is absolutely the campers!! Why the campers? Well. for a couple of different reasons. As a parent, if I had to hear those words, your child has cancer, I don't know what I would do. For our ROC campers, as a counselor, I can give that parent peace of mind that I will take care of this camper as if they were my own. I was there for the camper for one week so that they did not have to think about their diagnosis and just be a kid. I give that parent a week of not having to worry about their child. It gives the camper, as well as the parent, 6 days of normalcy."