August, 2017
EL PASO
What it Means to
Hold the Magic Wand | By: ROCIO CHACON |
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ake-A-Wish has been granting
volunteers the unique experience
life-changing wishes to children
of bringing a child’s one true wish to
battling life-threatening medical
life. They meet with the wish child
conditions for almost 40 years. Wishes
and his or her family to plan their
are a profoundly effective way for
wish, with the wish entirely funded
children to cope and conquer. They
by Make-A-Wish.
spark the imagination and power essential
“What has fueled my fire to keep
tohope. At Make-A-Wish, all-
granting more wishes? The kid’s
encompassing power of wishes quite
faces when their wish is about
like volunteers and wish granters.
to come true,” Rocio said. “It’s
nobody
witnesses
the
true,
priceless! The minute the family “I see it with my own eyes each
and the child realize the wish is
time I grant a wish,” said Make-
going to be granted, something
A-Wish volunteer, Rocio Chacon.
magical happens. I see it with my
“Something
happens
own eyes. Even just the anticipation
from the minute Make-A-Wish is
of the wish allows the child to
introduced, and the child immediately
forget about the hospitals, doctors’
amazing
gains strength and hope. That day is
Paso. “And the time, commitment is tailored
offices, medicines, treatments and
truly magical!”
to whatever fits your schedule. You can call,
everything else they endure on a daily basis.
visit their website or even stop by the Make-
Seeing how much wishes change the lives of
A-Wish office to sign up.”
everyone involved – that’s my fire!”
So how does one become a volunteer and Wish Granter?
Rocio explains that there are countless
“Every single wish is different and special,”
“The process was extremely easy and the
ways to volunteer and help out at Make-A-
Rocio said. “My first one was extremely
Make-A-Wish staff was there every step of
Wish. From working events and assisting
memorable, not only because it was the first
the way and assisted with any questions I
in the office, to speaking on behalf of the
one, but because it was a true testament that
had,” said Rocio, who was first introduced
organization,
a
when we come together as a community,
to Make-A-Wish at a volunteer fair here in El
difference. Being a Wish Granter allows
anything is possible! My first wish was for
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every
volunteer
makes
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