Children’s Skin Disease Foundation (CSDF) – Camp Wonder

Children’s Skin Disease Foundation (CSDF) is a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation which focuses on the unique problems of young people who suffer from skin disease and the families who care for them. Diseases of the skin affect thousands of American children each year. These diseases cause discomfort, pain, disfigurement, disability, dependency or death. These diseases affect not only the children but also their entire family. Even worse, the physical and emotional hurt caused by childhood skin diseases can last a lifetime.

CSDF sponsors the only medically staffed camps in the western United States, the Carolinas and Virginia for children with severe chronic and/or fatal skin diseases. In 2001, CSDF established Camp Wonder, at Camp Arroyo in Livermore, California (33 miles south east of Oakland Airport) through a grant from the Taylor Family Foundation.

Our mission has always been to improve the lives of children with skin disease and their families.  One way we accomplish this goal is to grant wishes to Camp Wonder families.  Wonder Wish was founded in 2017 to bridge the time between camp each summer by giving our campers and their families wonderful experiences.  Our Camp Wonder families are the strongest and most resilient people we know. We want to reward them for their courage and positivity in the face of such adversity!

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