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- 1. Hirschsprung’s Disease & the Make-A-Wish Foundation
- 2. The Make-A-Wish Foundation® has enriched the lives of children with life-threatening medical conditions through its wish- granting work.
- 3. Step 1: Referral Step 2: Medical eligibility Step 3: Finding the true wish Step 4: Creating joy http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5054/5499862096_e25fac1d1c_m.jpg
- 4. Wishes I wish to go... I wish to be... I wish to meet... I wish to have... tumblr_lgpraxRJnf1qbbj38o1_500.jpg
- 5. Ways to Help general donation e-cards & certificates volunteering time & talents Adopt-A-Wish shop to help http://www.wish.org/help/shop_to_help https://secure.wish.org/ http://donate.wish.org/volunteer http://www.wish.org/help/donate/cards_and_certs http://www.wish.org/help/donate http://www.wish.org/help/fundraising/adopt_a_wish baby-hands.jpg http://www.wish.org/help/shop_to_help
- 6. http://philadelphia.wish.org/wp-content/blogs/124/uploads/mollymed.wishes.medium.jpg kyleemed.wishes.medium.jpg erikalg.wishes.large.jpg pic.adopt-a-wish.jpg Adopting-A-Wish kylebeach02.jpg olivia04.jpg katie01.jpg For many donors, their support of the Make-A-Wish Foundation began after hearing a child’s heartwarming wish story and feeling the joy it brought to everyone involved. Now donors can create that same joy for another wish child through the national Adopt-A-Wish program. For each child’s wish, the Make-A-Wish Foundation covers all expenses associated with the experience for the entire family. The national Adopt-A-Wish program allows our generous donors to fund the entire cost of a child’s wish. A member of our staff will work directly with you to select a wish. Most wishes fall into one of four categories: I wish to go…, I wish to have…, I wish to be…, I wish to meet…. But a wish can be as creative as a child can imagine. By funding a wish, you can create special memories for a child—and yourself.
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- There’s a whole process for the Make-A-Wish Foundation and children that get involved: \nStep 1 is referral:\nThe only people who can refer children to the foundation are medical professionals, parents, and children with diseases themselves; and children between the age of two and a half and eighteen at the time of referral and have not been granted a wish from any other organization are eligible for a wish. \n\nStep 2: Medical eligibility:\nwhere the child’s doctor helps determine their medical eligibility, and to receive any kind of wish the child must be diagnosed with either a malignant condition, which is life-threatening or a progressive, degenerative condition, which is. And this is mistaken by many people all the time, but the condition of the child does not have to be terminal at all for them to be eligible. \n\nStep 3: Finding the true wish:\nwhich is where they send one of their wish teams to simply ask the child, “If you could have one wish, what would it be?”\n\nStep 4: Creating joy\nAfter everything they’ve done for the children they like to think that they made a big impact in the child’s life and that it was an unforgettable experience. and I quote from the foundation itself: “It’s an incredible experience that enriches not just the lives of the children and their families, but often an entire community.”\n
- What can a child wish for?\nMost of the wish requests that the Make-A-Wish Foundation receives fall into these four categories...I wish to go...Some kids wish to go to some place that they’ve never been before, like disney world and hawaii, those are the two most popular places. I wish to be...everyone has wanted to be some kind of profession as a child, like a police officer, a firefighter, etc. I wish to meet...maybe their favorite athlete, singer, movie star or someone else. and the last category is- I wish to have... for this category, most kids wish for some kind of special gift, as in a computer, a tree house, a shopping spree with a certain amount of money, or something that they’ve dreamed of having. \n
- These are some ways that you can help out the foundation. You can just make a general donation, they have a page that looks like this and you can just donate your money, any amount right then, or you can sign up for a monthly giving, where it will just take whatever amount of money you save you want to give per month\n\nThen there’s e-cards and certificates, like they have here. and when you select an e-card, a screen comes up and it will say donation amount and you just click whatever amount of money you want to give, like 10, 20, 30, 40, etc. \n\nThey also have volunteering your time and talent, where they can use anyone that can help them out with different events they set up for, office help, language interpreters, professional services and many more. and to sign up for things, you just check the different boxes where you would fit the criteria for it and would be able to do.\n\nThe next one is adopting a wish, which is where you can just be supportive and help a child’s wish come true by helping raise money for them. \n\nand the last one is shopping to help. They have an online store with so many different merchandise, that goes from clothing to magnets for your car. and by buying things from their store, that also contributes to helping others grant wishes of children. \n
- The Adopt-A-Wish program is a national program that anyone can be involved with. A member of the staff from the Make-A-Wish Foundation directly helps you find a wish to help grant. When someone volunteers to raise money and donate it to a certain child, the money that person raises goes to that child and their family along with any money the Make-A-Wish Foundation helps donate as well. For example if a child wants to go on a $1000 shopping spree, if whoever helps donate is only able to raise lets say $500, the Make-A-Wish foundation will write the child a check for the other $500. By being involved with something like this, I think that it can really- not exactly teach, but show a person a lot about life and helping another family out. It’s an amazing thing that so many people around the world get involved with and it not only affects the child’s life, but also yours. And this is exactly what I did... \n
- For my application, I adopted the wish of a child for my project, she is a four year old girl named Raven, and she was diagnosed with Hirschsprung’s Disease as a baby and her wish is to obviously go to Disney World. She’s been doing really good, health-wise, for a while, until recently she’s been in the hospital because she’s so sick, so unfortunately I was never actually able to meet her and her parents. She’s gone through almost everything that I’ve talked about, dealing with the disease. But even though she’s dealing with this terrible sickness, she is still a normal little girl. Her favorite colors are blue and pink, she plays with dolls, she loves Hannah Montana and Dora, and surprisingly, she likes watching basketball. \n