Volunteers are currently sought for MDA camp

The Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) is currently accepting applications to fill volunteer positions as MDA summer camp counselors. The camp will run from July 6-12 at Loyola Marymount.

Camp counselors must be at least 16 years old and must be physically able to lift a child. Each counselor is assigned to serve as a companion for a camper—a youth between ages 6-21 who is affected by a neuromuscular disease. Counselors help their campers with daily activities such as feeding, bathing and dressing, and in recreational activities such as arts and crafts, swimming and horseback riding.

MDA, a voluntary health agency dedicated to finding treatments and cures for more than 40 neuromuscular diseases, offers the camp free of charge to the families it serves.

To obtain a volunteer application or learn about other ways to support MDA’s summer camp program, please call the MDA office in Burbank at (818) 848-7000 or call MDA National Headquarters at (800) 572-1717. Information about MDA’s programs may be found at their Web site at www.mdausa.org.