I wish to read Bengali Poetries

Our volunteers came across with a 13 years old cheery and lively girl suffering from Rheumatic Heart Disease referred from Bowring and Lady Curzon hospital. She lives with her parents and 4 elder brothers in one tiny village of West Bengal.

Make A Wish Volunteers met this kid in the inpatient ward, they gave her a small soft toy to play and started talking with her about her interests and hobbies. She told them that she is having in-depth interest in drawing and learn more Bengali Kavitas. Most of her leisure time, she will spend with her blossom friend Meherun. Both of them will having keen interest in drawing, writing kavitas, learning different types of Rangolis and Mehendi designs. She expressed her aspiration to become a doctor and treat the kids without taking any money. And she is keen on doing social service for the orphans and provide them food, accommodation and educational service with free of cost.

In addition to this, she is having habit of reading Bengali Kavitas which her class teacher as taught. She told 4 kavitas to our volunteers though she was under the pain of dialysis. As our volunteers told “ Her kavitas inspired her to sang those many kavitas in the ward”, all other kids in the ward listen to her kavitas with lots of hope and joyfulness.  Then our volunteers start talking to her about her wishes, she said her only wish to have Bengali poetry books of books of Rabindranath Tagore, Bankhim Chandra Chatarjee and Aurobindo Gosh in Bengali.  

As our volunteers searched in many book shops in Bangalore, but there is no stock of the books she had specified. So, we took Kolkata divisional Coordinator help to get those books from there to Bangalore. As soon as we received books via courier, on the special day of 20^th April 2013, our volunteers planned for fulfilling her wish. They fulfilled her wish in the hospital when she came for her follow up treatment; there are no words for her to express her happiness. She thanked all our volunteers who made effort to got those books and make her wish come true.

WORLD WISH DAY-2013

At Bangalore division World wish day was celebrated in the whole last week of April with a few fun-filled events and other activities.

The first event of was in collaboration with iVolunteer where volunteers from iVolunteer participated in wish identification of around six children at Indira Gandhi Institute of Child Health, Nephrology and Thalassemia ward on one day and fulfilled them all on another day with lots of games and activities for the children.

The second event was organised with Sameeksha Foundation, at Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology, which gives educational & other support to children there. As part of their Birthday celebration at Kapoor Paediatric Oncology Ward, a wish child Master Dilip performed magic show in front of all the paediatric oncology patients, their family members and Sameeksha foundation staff.

The next event was at Shri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiology where volunteers fulfilled wishes of 7 children. In this event several games and recreational activities were organised and all the children took part and enjoyed themselves. 

Another event of world wish day celebration was organized with Support.com Company and was at held at their office. Around 40 employees participated in the event with wish children, parents, siblings, volunteers and coordinators. Two of the wishes sponsored by Support.com were fulfilled in this event.

BANGALORE DIVISION FULFILLS 1500TH WISH AT MYSORE

Make A Wish Foundation of India, Bangalore division, fulfilled the 1500th wish, which was to see the Mysore Zoo, on 31st March 2013. 

The 8 years old boy Sumath was on treatment for a life threatening Kidney and Heart Disease, when the volunteers of the foundation visited him first. Being jovial by nature Sumanth got along with the volunteers very well. He told the about his keen interest in animals and birds. At home, he said that he spent most of his free time in watching discovery channel or animal planet.

Sumanth was taken along with his family to the Mysore zoo and a volunteer accompanied them to make his wish come true. Though tired and exhosted he thoroughly enjoyed watching the variety of animals and birds in the zoo and happily posed in front all the animals for photographs.

Wish to visit Dharmasthala to pray to Shri Kshetra Dharmasthala Manjunatha Swamy

Our volunteers came across with a 12 years old young and active boy suffering from Chronic Kidney Disease at Vani Vilas Children hospital. He lives with his parents and a younger brother in one remote village of Magadi Taluk.

Make A Wish Volunteers met this kid when he was undergoing dialysis, they gave him a story book of Bhagat Singh and started talking with him about his interests and hobbies. He told them that he is akin to Play cricket, badminton and Kho-kho. He got Regional level kabaddi match shield by won the Regional level Kabaddi match. He liked  the movie “Shri Manjunatha” and he watched 6 times and having  faith in the god. Whenever he feels depressed and he was in pain because of the dialysis, he will just pray this god. When our volunteers started interacting with him about his wish, he said that his innermost wish to do Darshan of Shri Kshetra Manjunatha Swamy at Dharmasthala. But because of his treatment expenses, his parents were not able to take him to that place.

So, on the special day of 28^th Jan 2013, our volunteers planned for fulfilling his travel wish. He didn’t knew about where he is going, and they reached Dharmasthala on 29^th morning where there is no end for his happiness. From their first they visited Nethravathi river to take Sacred Bath(Punya Snana). He took bath in the river and feed the fishes with food items. Then they reached the temple and got direct entry to do Darshan of his favorite god Shri Manjunatha Swamy. And then all of them had prasdam and lunch in the temple itself. In addition to this, they had been to see Gommateshwar on the top of the hill and took beautiful snap with his family members.

At the end of the sightseeing again they pray the god and get into the bus. And his parents expressed that we have never seen our son, with this much of happiness in his face since a long time.  They thanked all our volunteers and said that they prayed with god for our volunteers to give strength for fulfilling many more kids wishes in future. 

I wish to LEARN ABOUT LIFE ....

Our volunteers came across Shri Lakshmi, a 16years old pretty girl from a small village in North Karnataka, a few days prior to her surgery. Our volunteers sensed that Shri Lakshmi has a very positive attitude towards life. On interacting further, she shared that her inspiration in life is her favorite author Swami Jagadatmananda’s book called ‘Badukalu Kaliri’, which means- ‘Learn about Life’. According to her, such books give her the strength to overcome any kind of pain in life. As Shri Lakshmi enjoys reading anything related to life and philosophy, her dearest wish was to read some other books written by Swami Jagadatmananda and a few other authors.

On 8^th November, 2010 Shri Lakshmi was deeply delighted to receive her favorite books from our volunteers. However, her attitude to face life, even though she knows that she is living with a life threatening illness is indeed commendable.

I wish to make my own toys....

Seven years old Daval is a fun filled, naughty child who lives with a life threatening illness. Our volunteer met him when he was admitted in one of the famous hospitals in Bangalore. Daval soon became very friendly and shared that he likes flying kites, playing marbles and making shapes in ‘mud’ out of his mother’s sight. From further conversation with the kid, our volunteer understood that Daval’s cherished wish was to make toys out of clay.

On 13^th September 2010, our volunteer fulfilled Daval’s wish with a set of colorful Clay. Our volunteer was immensely surprised to see that Daval made amazing replicas of a Christmas tree, a flower, a fish and a beautiful house out of the clay set. But more amazing was that sweet smile on his face which made everyone present there smile as well.

Wish to be a cook

Ranjitha is a 16 years old cute and very shy girl from Doddabellapur, Karnataka, who lives with a life threatening illness. When our volunteers met her and started interacting with her they thought that she may not open up and that she is too shy. But eventually they found that hers was a very unique wish.

Our volunteers asked her about herself and her interests and then she slowly became friendly and started sharing that she likes to play badminton and kabaddi, she is good at making rangoli, likes to read sometimes and so on. But apart from all that, what she really enjoys doing is nothing but cooking! She expressed that she would love to be a cook, for which she often experiments various dishes from magazines and cookery programs on TV.

On 3^rd August 2010, our volunteers had a surprise for Rajitha. She first saw the cookery books with her favorite vegetarian dishes and was so happy that she started going through it. Suddenly our volunteers gave her a pan and a spatula and then an apron and the cook’s cap! She just could not stop smiling. She wore the apron and the cap and insisted our volunteers on clicking more and more photos in her cook’s look.

I wish to listen to music all the time

Shivarama Naidu is an energetic 14 years old boy suffering from Muscular Dystrophy and both the parents working day and night to be able to bear the medical expenses. We got this referral from a Radio programme called “Kakambi”, they interviewed both the father and our wish kid. During that time this little angel told that “His life is too short according to physician, so he would like to donate his eyes to someone. So that my eyes will remain in this earth for a longer time.” One of our volunteer listens to this programme and got the wish parents number and visited the kid’s residence in the evening.

When our volunteers meet this kid, he was watching a music programme “Ede tumbi Haduvenu”. So, they start interacting with him concerning his interests and hobbies. Though he is having severe muscle pain, he keeps on talking with them with grin on his face. He expressed that he would love to play chess, carrom and videogames, but now a days he can’t play as he was getting severe muscle pain. He told them that he is an admirer of Dr.Raj Kumar and his son Shiv Rajkumar. And also he expressed his innermost wish to have MP3 player with his favorite admirer film song.

So, our volunteers choose the eve of World wish day to fulfill his innermost wish and they visited his residence. They fulfilled his wish and there is no limit for his merriment and also he got energy to play his favorite game chess with our volunteers. His mother told “among these days we never seen even a ray of smile on his face, but today you all make him to be filled with joy and cheerfulness”.

World Wish Day Celebrations

With support of volunteers, corporates, donors and sponsors, we could do 16 wishes on the occassion of World wish day. bicycles, MP3 players, dolls, toys, the wish gifts got smiles on those lovely faces. With over 50 people attending the events, it was memorable for the children. Thank you all for being there.

I love tractors

Master Rajeev is a 4 years old boy suffering from a life threatening illness; our volunteers met and identified his innermost wish to have a toy tractor. Bangalore Turf Club, BARI sponsored the wish and as a surprise organized a real tractor to take him for a ride all around the race course. On a special day 15th March 10, he comes along with his father and siblings to BTC. He was very much energized by seeing horses and when he saw the real tractor there is no limit for his cheerfulness. He went for a round in tractor along with his brother and a sister; he asked the driver how to drive infact he also tried to drive. Subsequently, he was gifted by a toy tractor and he was delighted to receive the gift and the event shall remain his memories for all times to come. We wish him well.