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.

Wish to see a racing horse

“Like a bolt out of the blue, fate steps in and sees you through. When you wish upon a star, your dreams come true.” The words of the Disney signature tune never rang s true as today, when the Bangalore Division of the Make A Wish Foundation of India took young Chirag to the Bangalore Amateur Riding Institute at Bangalore Racecourse to realize his wish to see a racing horse.

Make A Wish Foundation of India, initiated in India since 1995 and have fulfilled more than 16500 such unique wishes of children between 3 and 18 years of age with life threatening illnesses.

When Bangalore division contacted the Bangalore Racecourse with the wish of young four year old Chirag, who was referred to the foundation by Bowring Hospital they readily agreed to take the child around the Racecourse and also gift him a toy horse and toy tiger apart from fulfilling his cherished wish of seeing racing horses.

Chirag was introduced to all the BARI horses and was presented with a magnificent rocking horse by the Chairman of BARI, Mr. Sidney Moses.who explained that BARI is the oldest established riding centre in Karnataka and boasts among their successes, National Champions in many Disciplines and prides itself on having produced some of India’s Top race riders.

Mr. Moses said he shall never forget the look of delight on Chirag’s face when he met the Superstar Horse “Soldier of Fortune” and he was delighted to be a part of the fulfillment of the cherished with of the young boy.

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.

More smiles....more wishes fulfilled...

I wish a doll with a doll house....

Ragini is a 6 years old delightful girl and always with full of life suffering from Perimemberanous VSD, L-R Shunt, Moderate PAH and referred from Narayana Hrudayalaya. She lives with her 3 loving elder brothers and an elder sister in her village near Uttar Pradesh. They will come to know about her illness, 1year back, since then they were frequently showing her to the near by hospital to their village. Recently, one of the physician referred to Narayana Hrudayalaya.

When our volunteers visited her in the hospital, she was on her bed, undergoing with ECHO with lots of pain. And then our volunteers started interact with her through gifting her with a set of bangles. As she told she was more passionate towards the animals and birds, especially with peacocks, pigeons, panthers and more about fishes. In addition to this, she had habit of watching birds and animals on a regular basis in their farming land.

All the time she make herself busy with watching cartoon channels, during that time she wont allow any one to watch any other channel at her home. As she has been explaining about her hobbies, she told them that she was keener on drawing and painting the birds and animal pictures whichever she seen in their farm. Most prominently, she would love to play Eyes Spy with her sister and friends. As our volunteers asked her about her wishes, she told her innermost wish is to have Doll, Doll set and Kitchen set. So, on the special day of 16th September 09, our volunteers fulfilled her wish to have Doll, Doll set and Kitchen set. As her wish got fulfilled her face rim with delight and elation.

200 wishes.....more smiles....

200 wishes and many many more children who have various life threatening illness and it would be our endevour to bring smile back on their face. We seek more and more volunteers to meet, interact with the children and to identify their wish and help in fulfilling their wish. Make their wish fulfillment a cherished experience and take the mission of the foundation forward. If you can spare few hours every week to your convenience, it would be a very fulfilling experience for you to meet and interact with the wishkids.

I wish to see my STAR ...Darshan

Bhavya S is an 11 years old vigorous girl suffering from Severe Immuno Suppression and referred from Indira Gandhi Institute of Child Health to Make-A-Wish Foundation of India – Bangalore Division on 29th June 2009. She lives with her granny, two sisters and with her mother in Tumkur. So, our volunteer interacts with her about her interests, hobbies, schooldays, leisure time activities and friends. She was fond of reading comics and fairy tales. In future, she would wish to become a physician and wish to save many of the kids’ lives as like her. She kept always herself busy either with reading books or with watching movies of Challenging star Darshan. While interacting with her our volunteer come to know about her innermost wish to meet her cine idol Darshan.

So, our volunteers’ coordinated with the concerned team member of actor Darshan and they were endowing a juncture to meet him on 9th July 2009 at 1 P.M. Our volunteer’s obtained permission from the Medical Superintendent of the hospital to meet the actor as the kid is in inpatient ward and took her to meet the actor along with her two sisters and granny. When she arrived at Kanteerava Stadium, Darshan was busy with his shooting of the movie “Abbiah”, just opposite to the shooting spot they have organized dinner. So, all the kids and volunteers had feast even as watching his shooting. Once the movies shot got completed, actor Darshan straightaway get nearer to see our wish kid and she greeted him with flower bouquet. The moment she saw him, there is no boundary for her ecstasy and gladness. She interacted with him about his movies and she sings her favorite song of Darshan movie. In addition she took his autograph and phone number for keep regular contact with him. Actor Darshan was generous to bless her with good health and guided her to intake of medication regularly. It will be an immemorial moment in her lifetime as she told to our volunteer while they were back to the hospital.

I Wish to have a telescope...so that I can see STARS...

Ganesh Chakragiri is a 14-Year-old admiring boy suffering from Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia referred by Gokula Curie Cancer Centre of M.S. Ramaiah Medical College Hospital. He was passionate to amuse himself for cricket and playing computer games and browsing in net concerning astronomy. In addition to this he having the habits of reading comic books and completely engross himself to novels and short stories written by Mr. Sherlock Homes

He adored himself for Swimming and Cycling. But now on behalf of his illness, he reduced both swimming as well as cycling. Trekking, rock climbing, bird watching and participating in nature camps with his friends are his favorite pastimes. He will rejoice through watching National Geographic channel and Discovery channel as he was doting of astronomy and more inquisitive towards to know more innovative new places. He told about his three innermost wishes to our volunteers: as first and foremost wish is to have a personal telescope, indeed his second wish is to have astrophysics books and third wish is to see historical heritage Hampi.

While our volunteers met him on 2nd July 2009 at Gokula Curie Cancer Centre, he was undergoing for chemotherapy, as soon as he come back from his treatment they fulfilled his wish through gifting him a telescope, though he had a lots of pain within himself, his face was glittered when he received the telescope and there is no bound for his cheerfulness.