Camps & Afterschool

Sunrise
Day Camp

Sunrise Day Camp is the world’s first full-summer day camp for children with cancer and their siblings, provided completely free of charge. The Lucille & Jay Chazanoff Sunrise Day Camp-Staten Island is the only day camp of its kind in New York City. The camp serves children from Staten Island, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and nearby New Jersey.

Check out our camp video to learn more about the magic of Sunrise Day Camp-Staten Island!

Sunrise with orange and purple rays over colorful text promoting a day camp on Staten Island, New York.
Sunrise with orange and purple rays over colorful text promoting a day camp on Staten Island, New York.

About

The camp, which is located on the grounds of Staten Island Academy, serves over 200 children every year. Activities include sports, music, arts & crafts, swimming, and other games.

Staten Island Academy boasts a 12-acre campus, offering ample space for Sunrise campers to take part in activities both indoors and outdoors. In addition to previous summers’ activities, campers will also now have access to two swimming pools and larger field space. To ensure the health and safety of all its campers, Sunrise has exclusive use of their own program areas separate from the Staten Island Academy’s summer programs.

What We Offer

Recognizing the extraordinary financial demands that a child’s chronic illness can have on a family, Sunrise Day Camp and its year-round and in-hospital programs, Sunrise Sundays and Sunrise on Wheels, are provided completely free of charge to campers’ families.

Sunrise Day Camp-Staten Island proudly serves children with cancer and their siblings from Staten Island, Manhattan, Brooklyn, and nearby New Jersey on a non-sectarian basis. We are a proud member of the Sunrise Association, whose mission is to bring back the joys of childhood to children with cancer and their siblings worldwide.

Learn More

For more information on Sunrise Day Camp visit:
https://sunrisedaycamp-statenisland.org/

Three smiling children wearing white T-shirts with a sun logo and the text 'Sunrise Day Camp'. They are close together in a classroom with musical notes on the wall in the background.
A young girl with a colorful flower crown, smiling and crawling on a brick sidewalk, near a yellow school bus.

"Sunrise Day Camp means the world to us; It’s the one place where my boys can just be kids — no hospitals, no treatments, just pure fun. For a few hours a day, cancer isn’t the focus. They count down the days until camp starts, and I don’t blame them — it’s where they feel free and full of life. The counselors and staff are truly amazing and make every child feel seen, safe and so loved.”

– Gabriella, mom of two Sunrise campers