This endowment supports the work of the Make-A-Wish Foundation, now celebrating its 25 years in Utah. The Foundation grants the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions to enrich the human experience with hope, strength and joy.
Gifts of any size are welcome. Use our on line giving portal or call the foundation staff to make a gift at 801) 559-3005.
Children come to the Make-A-Wish Foundation at a frightening time in their lives, when life-threatening illness abruptly halts the real work of childhood —dreaming, creating, imagining, playing — and initiates instead a determined fight for life itself. A "wish" is a critically ill child's answer to the question, "If you could have anything in the world, go anywhere, be or do anything...what would you choose? What would you do?" Wishes are provided to all Utah children over 2 ½ and under 18 whose physicians affirm that they have a life-threatening medical condition. Contrary to popular opinion, not all the children we serve are in a clinically terminal period in their illness. Many will be survivors in the end.
Children are referred at any time in the course of treatment, but ideally at a point when the wish 
experience can be a helpful intervention: renewing a child's hope, providing something positive to look forward to and plan for, offering a time of respite to a stressed family, and renewing a child's willingness to be an active participant in the treatment process when some children are inclined to give up.
Donations of any size are gratefully accepted. By giving to this endowment you affirm your belief that every child facing the brutal realities of life-threatening illness deserves the magic and joy of a wish.
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