Children's Wishes 2023 Annual Appeal

Your donation makes Wishes happen!

Giving hope and happiness to a child with a life-threatening medical condition has magical powers! We have seen how granting a Wish lifts their spirits and helps them fight with more strength. We continue to be moved with each Wish that we grant.

Donors like you make all this possible.

Our Wish Warrior, Tessa, is battling Arthrogryposis, which affects bone growth throughout her body. Painful surgeries and treatment will continue for the rest of her life but Tessa is a fighter and is doing very well! Tessa recently visited us at Children's Wishes, with her mom Sheri, to show us her new braces after returning from treatment in South Carolina. Tessa’s Wish was to finally spend Christmas with her family in Florida. We reminisced about her Wish and how special this time was. Memories for a lifetime were made as it was the last Christmas she was able to spend with her Grandpa before his passing.

Children’s Wishes was able to make that happen because of supporters like you!

Children’s Wishes is a Rhode Island based organization that was established in 2009 to grant Wishes to Rhode Island children who are facing life threatening medical conditions. We refer to children in our program as “Wish Warriors.” Our Wish Warriors remain part of the Children’s Wishes family long after their Wish is granted. Years after the Wish and the treatment ends, families continue to be included in our Family Programming. They often support new families and children as they start this often-overwhelming medical journey.

A Wish can be as unique as a gaming station, a backyard playhouse, a trip to Disney or meeting a favorite sports hero. Since many of these children are medically fragile, it can be expensive to coordinate their safe travel. Children’s Wishes has granted 129 Wishes since 2009. Currently we have 27 children “in process” for their Wish.

Through our family programing we offer many family- friendly activities in a safe, accepting environment that often provides respite for the entire family. From annual parties and get togethers to the On Par Golf Academy, movie and craft nights, Words for Wishes Library and much more, our goal is to provide a safe, welcoming place for our Wish Warrior families.

Won’t you help by donating today? Everything Children’s Wishes does is funded through the generosity of supporters like you.