About Camps

Our annual children's camps are run in partnership with the Royal Children's Hospital and Monash Medical Centre with an emphasis on fun and adventure. The camps are a great way to give young people living with diabetes a chance to be independent and learn about their condition with the support of their peers and trained health professionals. The children attending our camps all have diabetes, are insulin dependent and have between two and four injections a day.

Children with diabetes may never spend a night away from their home or may have never met another child of their own age with diabetes. It can be a very isolating time in their life. During camp many children learn to give their first insulin injection which can be a real milestone.

Our camps provide children with diabetes a wonderful opportunity to:
- Meet other children with diabetes
- Go on an exciting camp with 24 hour supervision from trained staff

Objectives of camps
- To provide an enjoyable, safe camping experience in a supervised environment
- To increase participants' skills in managing their diabetes
- To provide an environment which allows the interaction between young people with diabetes that may otherwise be denied through geographic isolation
- To create an awareness about diabetes in all camp personnel who may participate in future activities involving young people with diabetes
- To allow people with diabetes the opportunity to liaise with health professionals in a non-clinical environment.