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Make-A-Wish |
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Wish Star Program | ||||
The Wish Star Program is an educational program that takes place in all Greek schools. It is a paper star which helps children's wishes to be adopted, who suffer from life threatening threatening diseases. Goals
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The Wish Star Program aims to activate all people, students, teachers, companies and organizations in order to enforce our mission via a 2 euro donatuon and the Wish Star. The Wish Star Program first started in Greece 18 years ago. |
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The Wish Star Program is being actually activated from September to December in Greece. We prepare our program during all year and the program exists since 1998. |
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Make-A-Wish Greece grants the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions to enrich the human experience with hope, strength and joy. When the dream of a child, battling a life threatening illness is granted, their power and strength becomes so great that they put up an even greater fight against their illness, which is a battle for life it self. Through the donations of the Wish Star program and the permission that has been given to Make-A-Wish Greece by the Ministry of Education, by simply donating 2 euro for a Wish Star, you receive a paper star, which in turn becomes a star of love, thus making the life of a sick kid, full of light and hope! A lesson about how precious life is for all our children, a lesson learnt by children who are healthy as to how they can offer to those children. Many companies participate every year in our program. |
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During our program we cooperate with:
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There is one coordinator of the program with the support of Make-A-Wish volunteers. 50 volunteers help every year with 1500 working hours. Make-A-Wish Greece was awardedin 2015 by Make-A-Wish International with the Best Team Effort Award among 50 affiliates. |
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The Wish Star Program takes place in every place in Greece. Also Greek schools in other countries participate. |
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Since 1998 18 years of the Wish Star:
During 2015 participated:
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More than 1550 wishes have been granted since 1996. 600 wishes have been adopted via the Wish Star Program. The program is one of our basic fundraising methods. |