A Week Away Foundation

“When you get away, you get to feel normal.” - Caleb Walker, Founder

At A Week Away, we coordinate and finance respite weeks for families who are battling a life-threatening illness, with the goal of providing them the rest and hope they need to continue their fight.

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Your Week Away

A Week Away offers families facing life-threatening illness a week of respite to find peace, recharge, and return with renewed strength and hope to continue the fight.

Caleb Walker Memorial Golf Tournament - Friday, August 28.

Caleb Walker Memorial Golf Tournament

The annual Caleb Walker Memorial Golf Tournament is one of the premier golf fundraising events in Central Pennsylvania each year! The privilege of golfing 18 holes on the beautiful Hershey Country Club course is a treat for golfers of all levels, where both goodwill & good times go hand in hand at this event that has raised well over a million dollars for A Week Away Foundation since 2014.

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The Oberholtzer Family

THE OBERHOLTZER FAMILY, Dear “a week away Team” – Thank you so much for the most incredible and relaxing week away! It was more than we could have hoped for!! It came after a very hard season of hospital visits + transition—I can’t believe we got away as a family + it was made even more incredible that we got precious moments with friends + family with us! It would have been totally impossible without our incredible caregiver with us.

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A week of peace in the middle of your battle

The burden of battling a life-threatening diagnosis does not fall solely on the shoulders of the patient, but on the caregivers and loved ones as well.

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Caleb Walker

Caleb Walker, the Founder of the A Week Away Foundation, believed firmly and would always say “that he was blessed to have the best support network in the world”. He had the hope that one day he would be cancer-free, because he was carried through the hard times by those around him. This battle had taken its toll on his entire team, and he took note. He saw what Cancer and other life-threatening illnesses can do to families. The burden of battling a life-threatening diagnosis does not fall solely on the shoulders of the patient but on the caregivers and loved ones as well. In starting A Week Away, he wanted to pay it forward and to give every immediate family member and/or primary caregiver a week of peace in their chaotic world. We believe that by giving families even just one week of peace together they can return home with the hope they need to continue their fight.

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