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The mission of Make-A-Wish International is to grant the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions to enrich the human experience with hope, strength and joy.
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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
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.
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.
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.
Since 1998 18 years of the Wish Star:
During 2015 participated:
The Wish Star Program takes place in every place in Greece. Also Greek schools in other countries participate.
During our program we cooperate with:
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.
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.
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