Camp Koru

Rediscover your life beyond cancer.

What is Camp Koru?

Camp Koru is a free outdoor, adventure, wellness, and community program that helps young adult cancer survivors (ages 19-39) find healing and renewal beyond cancer.

Participants, alongside other survivors, receive the tools, instruction, and encouragement required to take on a new challenge. The week is spent learning a new sport, accessing deep vulnerability, exploring the outdoors, and more, all while connecting with fellow survivors. 

Camp Koru is run by survivors, for survivors. The program has a comprehensive staff team of survivors, PK alumni, licensed therapists, professional chefs, medical staff, and trained yoga/mindfulness instructors.

Through this shared experience with peers who get it, participants learn to address fears, face life's challenges, and ultimately find their own potential beyond cancer.

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“I started living again, thanks to that camp. Before, I was just living in fear of death. But now I live in hope for life.”

— Jolina “Kala” Ruckert, Camp 39

What to expect

Group photo of young adult survivors smiling on the beach at Camp Koru.

  • Weeklong ocean/beach based camp experience

  • 2024 trips take place in beautiful Costa Rica (passport required)

  • Learn to surf!

  • Connect with a group of 10-15 other young adult survivors

  • Open up and access deep vulnerability

  • Express yourself through creative mediums

  • Explore and adventure in a new place

  • An alcohol and substance free experience

  • An experience for survivors, run by survivors. Camp Koru has a comprehensive staff team of survivors, PK alumni, licensed therapists, professional chefs, medical staff, and trained yoga instructors.

What’s the cost?

It costs us $2,000 to send a survivor to camp, but Camp Koru is FREE to survivors, thanks to the generous donations of our many supporters! However, it is up to each participant to pay for their travel to and from camp. 

Cassie Hines Shoes Cancer Foundation is an option for participants to apply for a travel scholarship, once medically approved to come to Camp Koru.

What’s next?

For survivors:

  1. Apply to Camp Koru.

  2. Sign up for our mailing list and follow us on social media to stay in the loop!

For supporters:

  1. Share this page with a survivor in your life.

  2. Make a donation to help us serve more young adult survivors.

  3. Sign up for our mailing list (on the bottom of this page) and follow us on social media to stay in the loop!