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    For 88 years, Rochester Rotary’s summer camping program for young people with disabilities, called Sunshine Camp, has been spreading sunshine to thousands of campers in the Rochester community.


    Each summer for two one-week sessions, young people with disabilities have the opportunity to experience the many joys of summer camping through Rotary’s Sunshine Camp program. While visiting the Sunshine Campus, Sunshine Campers get to participate in program areas including: swimming, arts & crafts, fully-accessible miniature golf, fishing, boating, and their very own radio station, WRSC. All program activities are accessible to people with different abilities. During their stay at the campus "our kids just get to be kids" and for many enjoying a first time summer camp with lots of friends and fun! 


    The Rochester Rotary family is pleased to offer the Sunshine Camp experience to our campers FREE OF CHARGE! This is accomplished because of our donors’ generosity-- folks like you who support all that we do through fund-raising events like the Annual Community Event - The Rochester Rotary Holiday Gala POPS with the RPO, Roc City Uncorked, the Sunshine Kids Gala and the Peter D. Formicola Sunshine Camp Golf Invitational, just to name a few.

If you are interested in applying for the Sunshine Camp please contact Shanna Butler, Program Coordinator at (585) 546-7435 x210 or via e-mail at shanna@rochesterrotary.org.