🎗️September, the month that turns golden, is dedicated to raising awareness about childhood and adolescent cancer. A month that reminds us that every child is precious like gold, and their strength and resilience can inspire the whole world.
👟Make-A-Wish (Make-A-Wish Greece) is organizing consecutive walks in 14 cities in Greece, the Walk for Wishes 2025, from April 26 to May 3. Learn more and participate!
Hospitalisations, treatments, examinations… children with cancer lose a significant part of their childhood. Through a wish, hope and faith are reborn, and the belief that anything is possible!
Konstantine Antonopoulos is the first person to bear the cost of all the wishes that were without a sponsor on the day he called the fairy office, thus ensuring the granting of 91 wishes and the uninterrupted continuation of our work.
World Wish Day, on April 29th is a milestone for Make-A-Wish, as it is the anniversary of the day the first wish was granted, the wish of Chris in 1980. This day is celebrated in 50 countries around the world in a unique -and in some cases spectacular- way. In Greece we had the support of more than 93 Municipalities that lightened up a historical monument or a milestone of their towns for the celebration!
👟 This year, at the initiative of wish families, the annual walk of Make-A-Wish Greece will be held in other cities around Greece, apart from Athens. The walks will be at night so that we can light up the Greek sky, in the blue color of Make-A-Wish! Find out more in the article and join us!
Cancer has passed. Several years may have passed. Then what? On World Cancer Day, Make-A-Wish Greece and KARKINAKI join forces, opening a public discussion on cancer stereotypes and the inequalities experienced by those who have been through it. Therefore, on February 15, we invite you to discuss meaningful issues with young survivors that concern all of us!
On Saturday 23rd of September, the Family Fun Day of Make-A-Wish Greece took place in an atmosphere of deep emotion. On the occasion of the 20th birthday of Allou! Fun Park, more than 340 members of the organization’s extended family, wish kids with their families, had fun all day, without any restrictions!
Prejudiced? No! Aware?YES! Every time we hear the word “cancer” our mind immediate associates it with a terminal and incurable disease or something bad and evil entering someone’s life. That’s why, sometimes people, especially the ones from older generations, combine into the same sentence the word “cancer” with phrases like “knock on wood”, “touch wood”,…