Assisted by camp counselor Dustin Sharp, McClain Shaw celebrates after making a bulls-eye in archery at Camp Horizon, a two-day camp for physically challenged children at Camp Lookout.On a warm Sunday afternoon in Rising Fawn, Ga., Camp Lookout is a beehive of activity.
Several motorized chairs are gathered around a picnic table as children complete an art project. Just up the hill, on a concrete basketball court, a boy in a wheelchair tunes up his game. Meanwhile, in an adjacent pavilion, several children learn archery. And in a nearby building, variously abled children practice their moves for an exotic dance.
The end of a weekend filled with activities is rapidly drawing near, but nobody wants to go home.
Camp Horizon, held annually at the United Methodist Church’s Camp Lookout, allows physically disabled children to spend two days doing the things — with one-on-one assistance — many other children take for granted.
“It’s definitely an exhausting weekend,” says Lindsey Sharpe, a physical therapist at Children’s Hospital at Erlanger, who started the camp with her husband, Steven, in 2005, “but [the children] get so much out of it.