Bátor Tábor has been a member of the SeriousFun Children’s Network, which brings together international therapy camps, since 2007. The first camp of the International Camp Alliance was founded by Paul Newman in 1988 in Connecticut.
“Laughter is most likely the best medicine.”
The Oscar-winning actor-director believed that laughter and special experience can bring back the lost childhood of children with serious illness after the long and painful hospital treatments.
Today, the founder’s legacy is preserved in 30 recreational therapy camps around the world. From the United States through Bátor Tábor in Central Europe to Japan, we all work to deliver strength for recovery for the children and their families in a total of 40 disease groups.
The success of the SeriousFun camps also aroused the interest of Yale University: their research in 2014 confirmed what we already knew from the hilarious laughter one could see at camps. According to the research, 79% of the parents reported that the camp experiences made their child much more confident, 74% of them found their children much more independent, and 80% said that their children became more open to new challenges.
The fun in numbers
1988 Paul Newman establishes the first camp in Connecticut
1994 The first European camp is launched in Ireland
2006 Paul Newman visits Bátor Tábor in Hatvan, Hungary
2007 Bátor Tábor joins the international camp association
275 800 volunteers helped to change lives around the world
1 185 000 seriously ill children and their families have had lifelong experience at the SeriousFun Children’s Network camps
