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Childhood Cancer Awareness Month

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Each month, more than 13,000 children are diagnosed with cancer.

Each month, more than 13,000 children are diagnosed with cancer.

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Cancer is one of the most common condition categories affecting wish children.

Cancer is one of the most common condition categories affecting wish children.

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A wish begins with hope, you can help to grant a wish for a child with cancer, today.

A wish begins with hope, you can help to grant a wish for a child with cancer, today.

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Jerida’s Wish

At 16, Jerida dreamed of becoming a tailor and worked tirelessly to save for sewing training and her first sewing machine. Just as that goal was within reach, she was diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma, and her savings went toward treatment. During her care, Jerida discovered a sewing class for patients, reigniting her passion. When Make-A-Wish® met her, she wished for a sewing machine. This life-changing wish was more than a gift, it was an opportunity to continue pursuing her future and reclaim a dream interrupted by illness.

Read More Wish Stories

I wish to meet Santa Claus
A man in a winter jacket and beanie assists Mía in her wheelchair as she feeds a reindeer in a snowy forest, fulfilling her wish to go ice skating.

I wish to meet Santa Claus

Asia is a girl whose smile lights up every room. Despite her congenital tetraparesis, she doesn’t let the limitations of her condition hold her back. With her parents and her twin sister Alessia always by her side, Asia lives life with courage and love.

Read Asia’s Story
I wish to go ice skating
A young girl wearing a pink helmet and purple ice skating dress rides a squirrel-shaped coin-operated kiddie ride in a shopping centre, fulfilling Mía’s wish to go ice skating.

I wish to go ice skating

Mía is a sweet 9-year old living in sunny Colombia, awaiting a new liver after undergoing a previous transplant. She lives in a very warm city where ice skating isn’t possible. But that never stopped her dreaming about it.

Read Mía’s Story
I wish to go to lapland
A young child in a pink snowsuit hugs a large snowman mascot wearing a blue helmet in a snowy forest, perhaps imagining a future baking station.

I wish to go to lapland

At 6 years old, Léane—who has battled nephroblastoma and underwent heart surgery following a pulmonary embolism—dreamed of meeting Santa and his reindeer in Lapland.

Read Léane’s Story
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About Childhood Cancer Awareness Month

As children in many parts of the world go back to school, for children undergoing treatment for cancer there is no return to normality, no catching up with friends or recounting their adventures over the break. This typical childhood experience is replaced by uncertainty and isolation. There are missed opportunities and endless hospital visits. There is worry in their parents’ eyes and uncertainty about the future.

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For a child facing cancer, hope is essential. Each month, more than 13,000 children are diagnosed with cancer across Make-A-Wish territories. When cancer strikes, everything changes. That moment of diagnosis can replace a child’s hope for the future with fear and anxiety. A wish has the power to restore hope when it’s needed most.