Schillings help Make-A-Wish Foundation grant magical wishes
Schillings news | 1 December 2010
Make-A-Wish Foundation has one single purpose – to grant magical wishes to young people aged 3-17 fighting life threatening illnesses.
Since the charity launched in 1986, Make-A-Wish have granted over 6000 wishes. Each year we send a Christmas e-card so that we can donate our Christmas card budget to an extraordinary children’s charity.
This year we are proud to help Make-A-Wish reach their goal of providing 85 wishes every month by the end of 2012.
For more information about Make-A-Wish, please visit www.make-a-wish.org.uk
We wish you all a Merry Christmas and a very happy new year.
Hanya wished for a new bike – and when she went back into hospital, the bike came to see her...!
Like many little girls, Hanya, aged five and from Stoke-on-Trent, dreamed of having her own bicycle. However, Hanya, who has Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome, a rare heart defect in which the left side of the heart is underdeveloped, has often been too unwell to visit the park to cycle with other children.
Make-A-Wish came up with a solution. We gave Hanya her very own High School Musical bike and arranged for her garden to be resurfaced to provide a safe place to ride her new prized possession at home.
Hanya, who received a heart transplant aged 18 months after developing an infection, was thrilled to have her own bike and somewhere to ride it. However, not long after her wish was granted, Hanya was again admitted to hospital.
Her family wanted something to cheer her up, and so the bike was brought to her hospital bedside. Now, it’s not every day that you see a bicycle on a hospital ward, but you can see from our picture how delighted Hanya was with her new wheels.