2022 – Best Fundraising Campaign of a Small Organisation Award - People For People Gala
We won the Best Fundraising Campaign of a Small Organisation Award with our project named ‘When the Body Fades Away, but the Soul Heals’.
Yuppi Camp was established in 2011 to offer effective recreational therapy to children with chronic and seriously illnesses in Romania. The model used was represented by the Hungarian Bátor Tábor, large-scale recreational therapy camps. Moreover, Bátor Tábor is still an important partner of Yuppi Camp.
We are grateful and would like to thank all our supporters and partners, volunteers and medical team for helping us year after year, all the companies and individuals who support us by offering an important part of their time, energy and financial resources, so that chronically and seriously ill children can participate in our camps freely.
Yuppi Camp organises free therapeutic recreation camps and activities for children and teenagers with cancer, diabetes or other autoimmune and serious diseases, and their families. Since 2011, 1,722 children and their families from across the country have participated in our camps.
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We are the first camp in Romania that uses the revolutionary method of recreational therapy (also known as therapeutic recreation). We were inspired and learned this professional principle from the Hungarian Bátor Tábor, a method recognised and applied all over the world. Besides, Bátor Tábor is a professional and much appreciated camp, part of the global Serious Fun Children's Network. In the following, you can learn more about recreational therapeutic activities and the proven effectiveness of this method.
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The fully furnished and equipped camp is located in the town of Șăulia, Mureș County. Here, we organise three or even four camps each year depending on the age group, respectively depending on the type of disease: camps for children with diabetes, for teenagers with diabetes, for children and teenagers with cancer or other autoimmune or serious diseases, respectively for families with children with cancer.
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During our camps, children are accompanied by volunteers, specialised medical teams, as well as members of the organising team. Also, before coming to the camps, children are recruited with the help of doctors.
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2197
of children and teenagers participated in Yuppi recreational therapy camps
1797
of volunteers contributed to the safety, well-being and joy of the children in the Yuppi camps
38
Yuppi recreational therapy camps were organised
3
Family Weekends
13
Online camps and activities
11
Recreational therapeutic activities for hospitalised children
Our vision is to offer a chance for a childhood without the worry of illness for children from Romania living with cancer, diabetes or other autoimmune or seriously disease.
Our mission is to give every chronically and seriously illnesses children a chance at childhood, providing them with the resources they need to overcome the obstacles brought on by their disease, so they can live life to the fullest.
the dream of a small team becomes reality: the first Yuppi camp for teenagers with diabetes in Șăulia, Mureș County
bilingual Yuppi camp (Romanian and Hungarian), this time at Câmpul Cetății, Mureș County
the Yuppi camp moves back to Șăulia, Mureș County
for the first time, we organize two summer camps: one for teenagers and one for children with diabetes starting from age 7
he first camp for children with cancer or juvenile arthritis
the first volunteer who was previously a chronically ill participant in the camp
the first camp for families with children including those under 1 year old; national reach: participants from cities such as Satu Mare, Constanța, Iași and București
Yuppi Camp among the people: we organize a flashmob in Cluj-Napoca; the number of illnesses addressed grows: for the first time, we have children with lupus and celiac disease in the camps
online activities and camps during the pandemic; the first 1,000 participants in Yuppi Camp camps
the first Yuppi Family Weekend, where we welcome families with children with multiple illnesses or in serious situations, for whom a longer camp would not have been possible; the first 1,000 volunteers in Yuppi Camp camps
the first therapeutic activity for children in hospitals; a first in Romania: a siblings' camp; over 17 illnesses addressed in the camps
100 doctors helping us with recruitment
#IAmMyAdvocate: 10 young people share their story about their illness on social media
or the first time, we have children with heart diseases in the camps; Yuppi Camp moves to Vărșag, Harghita County
We won the Best Fundraising Campaign of a Small Organisation Award with our project named ‘When the Body Fades Away, but the Soul Heals’.
We won the MOL CHILD HEALING PROGRAMME Award with our project named ’Yuppi Camp for Siblings’.
We won first place in the Non-formal Education category at the 2021 Youth Gala, which aims to recognise the merits of all those involved in projects and initiatives with and for young people of Romania.
The Civil Society Gala recognises and rewards Yuppi Camp and the work of those involved, who practice social work through recreational therapy.
Yuppi Camp has been nominated at the Webstock Awards competition, in the Best Social Good Campaign category, for the #IAmMyAdvocate campaign. The competition features the best projects and creative campaigns from the Romanian online space. We are very pleased by this nomination — we congratulate all the nominees and winners, and thank the event organizers!
The Yuppi Camp #IAmMyAdvocate project has been nominated at the DI_PLOMA Awards. This recognition comes from Open Minds, an initiative that brings together the most active allies of diversity and inclusion in Romania.
The Yuppi Camp #IAmMyAdvocate project has been nominated at the Civil Society Gala. The project's video component — in which 10 young people speak openly and unfiltered about living with chronic illness — has been nominated at the Civil Society Gala, the largest project promoting and recognizing the work of the nonprofit sector in Romania.
