Organised by the Make-A-Wish Foundation, World Wish Day is a global event that celebrates over 40 years of making life-changing wishes come true for young people diagnosed with critical illnesses. Taking place on 29th April each year, World Wish Day marks the anniversary of the wish that inspired creation of the Make-A-Wish movement. The organisation presents a variety of events around the world in the month and week leading up to the event, inviting the public’s participation and support.

1. S P O T L I G H T O N
WORLD WISH DAY

2. M A R K L Y T T L E T O N
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SPOTLIGHT
ON WORLD
WISH DAY
Organised by the Make-A-Wish
Foundation, World Wish Day is a
global event that celebrates over
40 years of making life-changing
wishes come true for young people
diagnosed with critical illnesses.

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M A R K L Y T T L E T O N
Taking place on 29th April each year, World Wish Day marks the anniversary
of the wish that inspired creation of the Make-A-Wish movement. The
organisation presents a variety of events around the world in the month and
week leading up to the event, inviting the public’s participation and support.
Having granted over 520,000 wishes for young people with critical illnesses
globally since that first wish in 1980, Make-A-Wish staff, supporters and
volunteers hear wish families stating time and time again that the granting
of these wishes has changed their lives.
In honour of World Wish Day, Make-A-Wish released new research in 2022
in the form of its Wish Impact Study, providing quantitative data lending
credibility to the anecdotal feedback heard regularly from the families it
supports. The Wish Impact Study added powerful results to a growing body
of research that demonstrates how wish-fulfilment promotes emotional
and mental wellbeing for children and families facing trauma caused by
critical illness.
The organisation presents a
variety of events around the
world in the month and week
leading up to the event, inviting
the public’s participation and
support.

4. You can learn more about the Wish Impact
Study and the work of Make-A-Wish by
visiting the blog of Mark Lyttleton.