AOK Today #27 - Make A Wish

AOK Today: Get involved with Make-A-Wish

"Make a wish with all your heart, and chase every dream you have" - Anne Frank

How It Works: Make-A-Wish creates life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses. Wishes are designed to complement a child's medical treatment, working to calm, distract and inspire at a time they need it most. There are five main ways to get involved as an individual:

1. Donate: Find out all the ways you can help, from a regular or one-time gift to wishing wells and donating your unused Qantas Points.

2. Volunteer: When you join the #WishForce, you become part of the world's largest wish-granting charity - with endless opportunities to make a difference in the lives of sick kids, their families and local communities.

3. Fundraise: There are so many ways you can get involved in raising much needed funds - online or in the real world. Whatever you choose, Make-A-Wish is here to help every step of the way.

4. Shop: Give a gift that makes a life-changing difference from the online shop.

5. Join an event: TEAM UP with family, friends or colleagues at your next local fitness event in support of Wake-A-Wish

You can also use the Wish Finder, an interactive map, for you to see children's wishes in your community (and all over the country - those that have been granted, and those that are still on their wish journeys to be granted. You might need a tissue for some of these - the simplicity, for example, of "to have Christmas day with his cousins" or "a trip to the Gold Coast with my family" tugs on the heart strings.

Cost: Free!

Why I love it: They had me at #wishforce. But also, the wishes of children and young people have a certain clarity of value and clarity of joy.

Happy Giving |XOX|