I wish to fly

Seven year old boy Gautam, who our volunteers met, had the cherished wish to fly in the sky. The wish was fulfilled on Sunday the 6th of December 2009, at the Jakkur Airfields, when a microlite aircraft took the little one for a flight of fancy for 30 minutes to a height of 700-800 metres, hovering all over. The boy was thrilled to sea earth from up there and his joy knew no bounds. Yet another smile to our collection.

I wish to have my own drum set.......

Chethan T is a 15 years old boy suffering from Immuno Compromised State referred from Bowring and Lady Curzon Hospital. He lost both the parents 3 years back and now he lives with his grand parents and uncle. When our volunteers met him for the first time, he was in pediatric emergency ward and they break the ice through provide him with a drawing book with colour pencils. He was very much fascinated in drawing musical instruments such as veena, mrudangam, drums with cymbals, flute and even the violin. Inspite of this he talked with them about his beloved hobbies-bike racing and look-after his pet dog Jimmy. During holidays, most of the time he will spend for drawing, painting, dancing and playing drums with his friends in a music school nearby their home.

Despite his hobbies, he was keenly interested in TV music and dance programmes. Through watching those shows, he learnt most of the dances and now he started learning his beloved musical instrument drums. In future, he would wish to become a famous Drummer. As our volunteers interacted with him about his wishes, he told them that his wish is to have a whole drum set with cymbals. On the special day of 21st October 2009, along with the drummer of the music shop our volunteers visited wish kids residence with new music drum set. As soon as he saw the music drum set there is no boundary for his cheerfulness. Then the drummer set the whole drum set and also taught him few hindi songs. He was in high spirits and keep on playing the drums which was known to him and also the songs taught by the drummer.

I wish to meet Cinestar Darshan....

Pramila is a 15 years old girl suffering from Acute Lymphoblastic leukemia and referred from MS Ramaiah Memorial Hospital. She lives with her compassionate parents and with two younger brothers near Karnalli village of Bangalore Rural District. Our volunteers visited her in MS Ramaiah Memorial hospital; she was in pediatric hematology oncology ward and just come back to her bed after the chemo therapy. Though she was in pain, she was engrossed with a smile when our volunteers offered “Vishwa Vismaya” the best book of Mr.K.P.Poorna Chandra Tejaswi. Her mother also told that she was eagerly fascinated towards reading the books of Tejaswi and National Poet Kuvempu.

Subsequently our volunteers talked about her interests, hobbies and other extra curricular activities. She told them that she was keenly interested on playing throw ball, volley ball and carom with her neighborhood friends. In addition to this she involved herself in cooking and farming work with her mother. During leisure time she spare the time with watching Kannada movies of Challenging Star Darshan. Infact she had 20 movie CDs of actor Darshan at her home, and whenever she feels dreary she kept herself busy with watching his movies. Since a month onwards because of her hospitalization, she was not able to watch his movies. When our volunteers talked about her innermost wishes she told them that her first wish is to see Kannada actor Darshan anyhow once in her lifetime.

Then our volunteers interacted with actor Darshan’s Makeup man and through him, someway got the permission to meet Actor Darshan. But, at this point of time, the kid is not in a good condition to meet him, because of her illness she was already shifted to Intensive Care Unit. And then our volunteers requested Actor Darshan to visit the hospital and explained the whole circumstances of kid to him. He was kind enough to meet the wish kid on the same day 15th October 2009, 6.30PM at M S Ramaiah Memorial Hospital ICU ward. When Darshan visited the wish kid she was unconscious, as soon as she heard his voice she recognized him. Though she was in pain, unable to speak, she opened her eyes and nodded her head with satisfaction and uttered a word “Anna” with lots of pain. Actor Darshan talked to her for a while and gifted her with a big teddy bear. He was generous to bless her with good health and also prayed for her.

I wish to play at Wonderla with my family.....

Bhargavi is a 9 years old girl suffering from Thallassemia Major referred from Vani Vilas Children Hospital. She lives with her parents and a younger sister. Our volunteers met her in Thallassemia pediatric ward while she was undergoing blood transfusion and interacted with her about hobbies, interests, and the school days. She told them that her innermost wish is to visit Wonderla with her mother and younger sister. Especially, she would wish to swim in water pool with a swimming tube. So on one special day, our volunteers took her to wonderla with her younger sister and mother. As soon as she entered the entrance gate of wonderla, there is no bound for her cheerfulness. Then she started enjoy herself with many magnificent games such as mini pirate ship, merry ghost, dungeon ride, termite coaster and train, kiddies wheel, mini express toon tango, cine magic, moon walker since morning 11am to 1 pm. Subsequently all of them had lunch in green restaurant and yet again started playing games. And then she started asking us to visit water pool as she wish to swim. So, our volunteers took her to water wave pool, play pool, wonder splash, lion swing, flying jumbo, musical fountain and laser show till evening 5.30 pm. She enjoyed much in water play pool with swimming tube. She was not ready to come out from wonderla and at the end of the day her mother told our volunteers that she was never be much happy as she was today. Then she thanked all our volunteers for take her to wonderla and made her wish come true.