what is a wish?
A “wish” is a critically ill child’s answer to the question, “If you could be anything…meet any body…have anything or go anywhere…what would it be?” The Make-A-Wish Foundation^® of Arizona grants the wishes of children ages 2 1/2 - 18 whose physicians affirm that they have life-threatening medical condition.

Here are some examples of the wishes some of our children make:

I wish to meet…
Many children, especially the littlest ones, want to meet their idols. They wish to meet Sleeping Beauty...to have breakfast with Mickey Mouse...to have a Pooh party…or a private meeting with Barney.

Some children wish to meet someone very special--a celebrity who has been a hero, a role-model, a motivator, an inspiration through a very difficult time in their life. We have fulfilled wishes to meet The Rock, Will Smith, Janet Jackson, Rosie O’Donnell, and NASCAR driver Jeff Gordon.

I wish to be…
Wishes for a unique, one-of-a-kind experience shine with a child’s own personal passion and imagination. Children have chosen to be Spiderman, a rock star, Cinderella…even a pickle factory worker.

I wish to go…
Children make wishes for travel to swim with dolphins, have a luau in Hawaii, get a piggy-back ride from a favorite uncle or see sites like Yosemite National Park, the Grand Canyon or the Golden Gate Bridge.

I wish to have…
Gift wishes include computers and shopping sprees, and more unusual dreams like a fire station bedroom complete with fire pole, a grand piano, a horse named “Buttercup”, and even a two-story Queen Anne play house.