Camp Periwinkle

Lorena Macarena talks to Anais Saenz, a childhood cancer survivor and former Camp Periwinkle camper. The Periwinkle Foundation, named after a plant used to make the chemotherapy agent vincristine, founded in 1983 by Dr. Paul Gerson to provide children at Texas Children’s Hospital with the opportunity to “just feel normal” for one week at Camp Periwinkle. Since inception, Periwinkle’s signature program . Camp Periwinkle has allowed over 5, 000 campers to experience a week of pure joy, freedom and emotional healing.