Make A Wish America Research Paper

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“We grant the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions to enrich the human experience with hope, strength, and joy” (Make a Wish America). Make A Wish is an incredible organization that runs off the people to make dying children’s wishes come true. Make A Wish wishes help children fight harder against their illness. For others Make a Wish completes the child’s dying wish before their death. Make A Wish is a non-profit foundation where you get to make a child’s dying wish come true.
Chris Greicius was like every other seven year old with a dream; his dream was to be a police officer. However Chris was diagnosed with Leukemia, and was probably going to die. The dream to “catch the bad guys” (real make a wish website) to make the world safer. On May 3rd Chris lost his fight to Leukemia, but he was not forgotten. Instead he started up one of the best organizations to support today, Make A Wish. The Summer of Chris’s passing, a group of working-class DPS officers, friends and family gathered, which marks the beginning of Make-A-Wish” (Real Make a Wish website). “By the following spring the group has raised $2000 and can grant its first official wish” (Real Make a Wish website), and was able perform their first wish. “Last year, the organization granted more than …show more content…

“It drives us to make our donated resources go as far as possible” (Make-A-Wish® America). Make A Wish’s goal is to grant a wish to all the children with a life threatening condition .Make A Wish gives out wishes “Because wishes make very sick kids feel better – and sometimes, when they feel better, they get better” (Make-A-Wish® America). “For wish kids, just the act of making their wish come true can give them the courage to comply with their medical treatments” (Make-A-Wish® America). Make a wish allows children and their family feel optimistic that they will fight and win against the

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