Make a Wish Come True

Make a Wish Come True

Imagine you had a 5 year-old daughter/son whom you love with all your heart. You take him/her to your family doctor for your child’s routinely check-up every 4 months. Soon after your child’s check-up, the doctor diagnoses your child with a serious case of leukemia/lymphoma/brain cancer and they only have a short period of time to live. This news breaks your heart, knowing that there is almost no chance of your young child beating that illness. When you explain this to him/her, they have a big wish that they would’ve wanted more than anything in the world: getting a chance to go to Disney World. You want to do this for them, yet you are not sure where you are going to get the money for something as big as Disney World. Don’t forget you have to pay for the child’s health insurance. The solution: the Make-a-Wish Foundation is your best way to go.

• A wish come true empowers children with life-threatening medical conditions to fight harder against their illnesses.
• Nearly 75% of all wish experiences involve travel
• As of August 2012, the average cost of a wish was $8,141.
• The person who holds the title for most wishes granted is American wrestler John Cena, granting 450 wishes.
• A combined 89 percent of doctors, nurses and health professionals surveyed say they believe a wish experience can influence wish kids’ physical health.
• The average cost of a wish $6,450.
• Make-A-Wish doesn’t consider a family’s financial status.
• Children feel less isolated from their friends, and feel a return of self-confidence that comes with feeling normal again.
• Parents and medical professionals alike describe the wish experience as a frequent turning point in wish kids’ battles for health.
• Found in 1980, the Make-A-Wish Foundation is the largest wish-granting organization in the world. It was founded in Phoenix, Arizona.

Did you know that Make-A-Wish has established a North Carolina chapter? Yes, North Carolina has a Central and Western Make-A-Wish chapter? North Carolina’s chapter has passed through 30 years of granting wishes. Just like most of the other chapters, North Carolina’s local chapter has been doing great granting wishes to represent this state. On January 30^th, 16-year old teen Austin Edwards is getting his wish of going to the Super Bowl. He’s battles cystic fibrosis and can’t wait for his 2016 trip to the Super Bowl.

I liked the intentions of Make-A-Wish Foundation every since I was little. It always made me feel happy to see a small child get their wish fulfilled when that kid gets to go to their favorite teams’ sports game, getting to go to Disney World. It made me feel joy that their life wasn’t all in vain. I think people who love children can help donate to this organization because it’s sad to see a small child have a terminal cancer and die from it in a short period of time. It can make people, even children, feels sad knowing that the child with the condition wouldn’t get a chance to grow up.  It even breaks of hearts of celebrities who grant the wishes of the child. I am also a lover of small children, so every time I hear about a young child’s death, my heart starts to hurt because it makes me think of my younger brothers, 12 and 9. What if they got cancer? Would it be terminal? Would they ever be the same again? So why not donate to Make-A-Wish? You help make the wishes of young children come true.

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Sources found from www.wish.org and www.nc.wish.org.