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    Their Wish is My Wish The make a wish foundation is about giving children a big wish and it can be anything. It’s mostly for children who have a life threatening illnesses. I feel like this is an important organization because it gives children a nice experience in life. Children didn’t choose to get the disease they have and it’s a nice foundation to make them happy. It takes away all the bad things that they are going through and giving them the best experience of their life. A wish is granted

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    the Make-A-Wish Foundation of America? Well if you haven’t you might just want to cry over the things they do. The Make-A-Wish Foundation of America is a charity that grants the wish of a child who has a life-threatening medical condition. According to lovetoknow.com, a child's wish can be a wish to go somewhere, a wish to be something, a wish to meet someone, or a wish to have something (Love-To-Know, web). According to wish.org “In the United States and its territories, on average, a wish is granted

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    The importance of the Make a Wish Foundation is that It grants wishes for kids from 3 -17 years old in order to help them feel good for the last years of their life. It's for kids who have a life threatening disease and don't have that much time left alive. This foundation is to give a chance to these kids to go explore whatever they want. What happens is that each kid has one wish to go do anything or go do something they want to do.There are four steps to granting a wish. Each step builds on the

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    they lose the hope, joy, and strength they need to survive. Now imagine having one wish granted for you. Having the hope and joy you once lost given back to you and you have the strength to fight for your life. Well, that’s exactly what the Make-A-Wish Foundation did for Frank "Bopsy" Salazar and thousands of other kids.  Bopsy was diagnosed with leukemia at the age of 5. With the support of the Make-A-Wish Foundation, Bopsy was able to fulfill all three of his wishes: to be a fireman, visit  Disneyland

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    about their situation, that's what Make-A-Wish is for. Make-A-Wish has brought happiness to many kids who are struggling with their conditions. Make-A-Wish has also been putting lots of effort towards their kids in hopes of them having the best day ever. Member of Make-A-Wish America and Medical Advisory Council, Dr. Shoba Srikantan, stated in his blog that the medical procedures they put the kids through tries to remind them they are safe and their wish will make it less scarier since they have something

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    75 cents. All profits benefitting the Make A Wish Foundation.” It was as if someone pulled the scene from an old movie. Three young boys. The family business being sold off. Machinery lined up. Auctioneers bellowing out the next highest price as my family watched 40 years of toil and dreams being hauled away. And there I was, ten years-old, caught in the middle of that big mess. Selling donuts for 75 cents a piece to support the local Make A Wish Foundation to men that would soon own generations

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    with neuroblastoma. Neuroblastoma is “a life threatening cancer that affects the nervous system (Make-A-Wish 2012).” Sam always has this passion for baseball and his wish was for a baseball field to be built in his backyard, which would allow him to play with his friends whenever he wanted. Make-A-Wish knew that this was his one true wish, so they asked help from volunteers and donors to make his wish come true. The University of Mississippi and Itawamba Community College’s ground crew decided that

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    The heavy clear doors slammed open one by one; big bright lights pierced my eyes above with little images of ceiling tile surrounding me that I could barely make out. People in navy blue uniforms huddled around me appearing to be in a hurry somewhere based on they’re bright red faces and the drops of sweat that were slowly dripping and collecting down they’re flushed faces, that eventually fell and exploded on my cold skin. All the commotion around me came to an abrupt halt. Now I was starring at

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    over 1,960 of them will die. That’s why the America Make a Wish Foundation grants a wish every 35 minutes to kids with life threatening diseases. They believe that in some cases, giving the kids their one heartfelt wish could be a real game changer. That's why, one way I’m going to pay it forward is sponsoring a wish. First of all, sponsoring a wish means to grant a gift to the foundation and you give a wish to a specific child. After the wish is granted you receive a picture of the child and their

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    didn’t know was their day was about to be turned around when one foundation makes every wish come true. An organization created a foundation called the “Wish Upon a Star” foundation. No one knew who these mysterious people were for they just arrived. People suspect they are immigrants and others believe they are aliens. However, instead of answering the many questions people had of them, they introduced a simple plan that makes any wish come true. They claimed

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