It is tour day at Camp Kindle and sponsors, medical staff and families are getting a look at the facility.

After renting camp space for nearly two decades, the Kid’s Cancer Care Foundation bought the 160 acre site in 2009. 

Since then there have been some major additions, including a clinic so that kids can continue their treatments and not miss out on the fun.

“We'd like to have kids who are getting chemotherapy to be able to come here, spend a couple of hours from their activity, get intravenous chemotherapy, get oral chemotherapy.  We'd like them to be able to do that here and not be prohibited from attending camp,”said Dr. Doug Strother, Head of Pediatric Oncology at the Alberta Children’s Hospital.

The zipline is one of the favourite activities at the camp.

Jaymee Aitkenhead, 10, braved the ride with her mom and says zipping through the sky is a blast but there are lots of other great things to do as well.

“I did the rock wall, arts and crafts, field games, archery,” said Jaymee.

Jaymee had a cancerous tumor and kidney removed two years ago. 

Her battle wasn’t over and she was diagnosed with leukemia which is a rare side effect of the 30 chemotherapy and 14 radiation treatments she endured.

Jaymee is now healthy and happy and her parents say a big part of the reason is the boost she got from being at the camp.

“They're here and they can just be themselves and learn to get back into inter-mixing with kids.  Jaymee was in isolation for so long that she wasn't allowed to be around everybody else,” said Jaymee’s mom, Tanya Aitkenhead.

“You're not thinking about clinic visits, you're not thinking about hospital time, when the next chemo is.  You're just thinking about oh, awesome, we're gonna have a campfire tonight, oh, we're gonna do the rope course today, we're gonna do the zipline,” said Jaymee’s Andrew Aitkenhead.

The camp also has a brand new swimming pool for the kids to exercise and play in.

Camp Kindle is free and relies on fund raising to maintain and fund the facility.

For more information, visit the Kid’s Cancer Care Foundation website.