Atlanta summer camp for children with cancer, their families kicks off for seventh year [Video]

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) – Children whose lives have been touched in some way by cancer are getting to spend the summer at an Atlanta camp designed for them.

Organizers said the camp, now in its seventh year, is a place where kids can be kids — regardless of what is going on in their lives.

There are times when people have to be brave, to find strength within they may not have known they had. Some children at the camp have, unfortunately, had to find that strength and bravery too early. Because of cancer, childhoods have been spent in hospitals hooked up to IVs, fighting life-threatening diseases.

At Aurora Day Camp, kids like Yazzy Brown are able to spend time as a normal kid, doing normal kid, summer camp things.

“Yazzy has been through neuroblastoma treatment for two years,” Dr. Kwame Brown, her dad, said.

No one brings up cancer. The …