{"id":245938,"date":"2026-07-17T16:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T16:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/245938\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T16:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T16:16:08","slug":"sunrise-day-camp-greater-philadelphia-brightens-the-days-of-children-facing-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/245938\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunrise Day Camp-Greater Philadelphia brightens the days of children facing cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">For children fighting unthinkable battles with cancer, there&#8217;s a place where they can go and just be kids.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Sunrise Day Camp-Greater Philadelphia brightens their days, and it&#8217;s all for free.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The environment becomes a safe haven in the present, and builds the foundation for a future after their illness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;We want kids to enjoy the moment. They&#8217;re also going to have lasting memories, lasting relationships, whether it&#8217;s the friendships or the mentorships that are really going to carry them on,&#8221; said Executive Director, Mark McElrath.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Members of the <a data-ylk=\"slk:Philadelphia Union;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.philadelphiaunion.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia Union <\/a>recently stopped by their camp to visit the brave children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8221; Being able to connect with the community and just being together with everybody&#8230;It&#8217;s my favorite thing being able to come out here and just enjoy the sun, the weather&#8230; All the smiling faces too just puts a smile on my face, which is amazing,&#8221; said Philadelphia Union Midfielder, Jeremy Rafanello.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">For more information, check out the video above.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Also, check out their <a data-ylk=\"slk:website;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sunrisedaycamp-njpa.org\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For children fighting unthinkable battles with cancer, there&#8217;s a place where they can go and just be kids.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[105233,69,71,70,10227],"class_list":["post-245938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-lasting-memories","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philadelphia-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}