MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION

WHAT IS THE MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION????

• a beautiful and inspirational organization that changes lives
• It grants a wish to a child diagnosed with s life threatening medical condition
• A wish is granted on an average of every 38 minutes. THATS INCREDIBLE!!!!!
• The wish can be anything

HOW IT ALL STARTED

• It all began in the spring of 1980
• A 7 year old boy named Chris Greicius was diagnosed with leukemia
• He always wanted to be a police officer and "fight bad guys"
• Tommy Austin, a family friend happened to be a police officer
• He pulled a few strings and got Chris to come down to the station for a day so he could be an honorary police officer

CHRIS GREICIUS CHANGES THE WORLD

• Chris died shortly after that special day
• He was given the funeral ceremony of a fellow fallen officer
• Word spread about chris' story and people wanted more
• Officer Frank Shankwitz gathered with felloe officers, firends and family
• The first donation was 15$ given to Frank by a grocery store owner

CHARITY + JUSTICE

• One act of charity turned into a international organization in 30 years
• The foundation fights for a diagnosed child to be happy
• We want their dreams to come true
• Short term goal-Wishes make kids feel better-and hopefully get better
• Long term goal- to be apart of the cure for cancer-to give hope to those who have none

JUSTICE PRINCIPLES

• Option for the Poor
• Solidarity
• Human dignity
• Respect for life
• Stewardship

PACEM IN TERRIS

• Pope john xxiii wrote it to address the topic of peace
• The Make A Wish Foundation is a huge benefactor of peace and happiness in the world
• make A Wish works toward the greater Common Good-which is the health of children
• Make a Wish also upholds the right to human life which this encyclical stresses
• The world has a responsibility to support cancer patients by any means

SAM'S WISH

• sam loved to play baseball
• He was diagnosed with neuroblastoma at age 11
• The make a wish foundation/friends/fam made him his own baseball field
• They made it in his backyard
• The baseball field is now open for the whole community

BEN'S WISH

• Diagnosed with Leukemia at 9
• Wished to make his own video game starring him fighting cancer cells
• Make a wish foundation got together with a professional game designer
• They released the game in 2004
• It is now available to kids all over in hospitals so they can virtually destroy their disease

IN 2013, MORE THAN 226,000 CHILDREN HAVE RECIEVED WISHES

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