Camp Smile Wraps Up In Citronelle

Margaret Anne Smith slips down a cool waterslide at camp smile. The water play may be fun, but something else has her attention this week.

“Guys,” she says emphatically. “Because they're cute and adorable.”

She's one of more than 60 campers with some form of mental or physical disability.

“They can cerebral palsy down syndrome, autism, mental retardation and muscular dystrophy so we get a little bit of everything,” says camp director Cecy Lowell.

This is the oldest group United Cerebral Palsy of Mobile helps out during Camp Smile. Some have been coming for many years and these guys are a little bit more laid back.

“I mean I've been involved with camp for 30 years and they were here when I was growing up and if you talk with the people they live with this is what they talk about doing, they wait for camp every year,” says Lowell.

Counselors like Joseph Aguirre say they're challenged to learn something about themselves at camp smile

“It really brings out of your patients, all of your gifts all the love you have to offer really you can't help it, it's just the kind of place this is,” says Aguirre.