Camp Boggy Creek

Our brothers, the third triplet and our big brother, each volunteered a summer at Camp Boggy Creek in high school. Both went on to careers in pediatric medicine, one in emergency, one in intensive care. We don't know how much those summers had to do with it, but we've always liked that it shows up somewhere in their story.

Located just outside Orlando, Camp Boggy Creek gives children ages 7 to 16 with chronic and life-threatening conditions a week that has nothing to do with their diagnosis and everything to do with being a kid. It's a real camp, horses, lakes, campfires, run inside a medically safe environment, so a child who has spent years being defined by a condition gets to spend a week being defined by none of it. It's free for every family who attends.

Five cents of every dollar we earn goes to Camp Boggy Creek, the same place our brothers gave a summer to. We believe what's true for the people who wear our jewelry is true for these kids too: a condition is a detail, not an identity.