The camper recruitment team works hard to support the kids to get to the camp. They deal with the applications, keep in touch with the families, and answer their questions. Read how you can apply to the camp and what the camp organizers do.
At Bátor Tábor, we organize therapeutic recreation camps from spring to autumn.
The focus of the Sibling Sessions in spring is on the individual and shared experiences of ill and healthy siblings and on strengthening the relationship between them. The Sibling Session is available at the moment only in Hungarian. In our Summer Sessions, our campers can experience what they are capable of, they can discover abilities they think they have lost or have been hidden so far. Here we welcome kids from four countries: Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic and Poland. In the autumn Family Sessions, we provide self-confidence-building and family-unifying experiences for families in which the child is under the age of 6. And the Bereavement Session supports families if they lost a child due to a serious, chronic illness, accident, or at around birth. These two session type is available only to Hungarian families.
Families do not apply to the session directly at Bátor Tábor but through hospitals. We have contacts in 60 hospitals (47 Hungarian and 13 international), which means more than 60 hospital coordinators. In each centre there is an employee (a doctor, nurse, psychologist, hospital educator) who registers the kids to us through an online database. Here we get the medical profile of the future camper, and based on this we make a responsible decision if they can come to the camp in the next period based on their given medical condition.
After the application, the camper recruiter team sends all the necessary information to the families, keeps in touch with them, and answers all their questions.
They also provide the most necessary information about the campers to the camp directors. It is important to emphasize that the detailed medical condition of the campers is known only by the doctors and nurses of that session. Other volunteers and camp directors are informed only about those details (personal or health information) that are essential for safety reasons and help the volunteers to organise a programme that is both safe and enjoyable for everyone.
