ABOUT MAKE-A-WISH SOUTHERN FLORIDA
Make-A-Wish® Southern Florida has a sole mission: creating life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses. Since 1983, the Southern Florida chapter has granted more than 14,000 wishes and expects to grant more than 600 wishes this year alone.
They are a nonprofit organization that helps fulfill the wishes of children with a critical illness between the ages of 2 ½ and 18 years old.
Wish kids can wish for anything within their imagination, whether it’s to sing on a stage, be a marine biologist, or photograph tulips in Amsterdam. The entire family is included in the wish experience and there is never any cost or obligation to them!
Make-A-Wish Southern Florida is one of 58 chapters in the United States!
Covering 22 counties/four regions in Southeast and Southwest Florida, Tampa Bay, and Suncoast (Sarasota area), as well as the U.S. Virgin Islands.
I wish to be a singer
Nathan, 11
nervous system disorder
I wish to have a bedroom makeover
Gabriella, 10
leukemia
I wish to have a bedroom makeover
Cavion, 9
endocrine disorder
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Wishes are More Than Just a Nice Thing...
...a wish experience can be a game-changer for a child with a critical illness. This one belief guides us in everything we do at Make-A-Wish®. It inspires us to grant wishes that change the lives of the kids we serve. It compels us to be creative in exceeding the expectations of every wish kid. It drives us to make our donated resources go as far as possible.
Most of all, it's the founding principle of our vision to grant the wish of every eligible child. Wishes are more than just a nice thing. And they are far more than gifts, or singular events in time.
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Wishes impact everyone involved - wish kids, volunteers, donors, sponsors, medical professionals and communities.