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| Founded | 1994 |
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| Founder | Paul Newman |
| Location | |
| Coordinates | 53°09′13″N 6°35′51″W / 53.153490°N 6.597477°W |
| Website | http://www.barretstown.org |
Barretstown is a not-for-profit camp for children with cancer and other serious illnesses located at Barretstown Castle, Ballymore Eustace, County Kildare, in Ireland. It was founded in 1994 by Hollywood actor Paul Newman and is a member of the SeriousFun Children's Network of camps across the world.[1]
The children attending, aged from seven to seventeen, come from Ireland and more than twenty other European countries to take part in activities the camp provides such as arts and crafts, canoeing and outdoor adventure. After successfully overcoming the initial challenge of these activities, the camp says that children stop seeing themselves as 'sick kids' and begin to regain their own inner strength, confidence and self-esteem through therapeutic recreation.[2]
- ^ "About the Charity". Retrieved 29 May 2014.
- ^ "Therapeutic Recreation at Barretstown". Archived from the original on 29 May 2014. Retrieved 29 May 2014.