Participate in the Make-A-Wish Play for Wishes, presented by Honda Canada Foundation and bring hope to children with critical illnesses!
MARCH 1, 2021
- Make-A-Wish® Canada and Honda Canada Foundation have
partnered in their first-ever Make-A-Wish®
Play for Wishes, starting
on Friday, March 5 to Saturday, March 7, 2021. Honda Canada Foundation is matching up to $25,000 of funds raised,
doubling the impact for #PlayForWishes! Featuring wish kid Xander and television
sportscaster Kate Beirness as ambassadors, Play for Wishes is a virtual games
night event to help raise funds that will grant life-changing wishes to
children with critical illnesses.
Registered participants can enjoy the many games
provided, like bingo, trivia, or they can play their favourite board games,
video games or team challenges. Participants get to choose how and when to have
fun with friends and family, in the safety of their homes, all while making a
difference in the lives of wish children who need the hope of a wish during a
difficult time. To learn more and register for this fun, new event, visit playforwishes.ca.
Over the past ten years, Honda Canada Foundation
has raised close to $1.4 million to support our mission,” says Sheila Rees,
Make-A-Wish Canada’s Vice President of Development. “The national virtual Play for Wishes is just another incredible
initiative of how Honda Canada Foundation is committed to ensuring that
life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses continue, especially
during these extraordinary times.”
In 2019, the organization granted over
1,600 life changing wishes. But as we all know, 2020 was different and as a
result of COVID-19, more than 4,000 wishes were delayed. While
Make-A-Wish Canada’s ability to grant wishes that involve travel and gatherings
has been impacted, our life-changing work continues. We remain focused on our
mission and continue to grant memorable wishes while keeping our wish families
safe.
“Honda
Canada Foundation recognizes the growing impact this pandemic has had on our
ability to deliver life-changing wishes for children, and the thought of not
being able to grant a child their wish is heartbreaking,” says Tony Facciolo,
Chair of the Honda Foundation and Vice President of Honda Financial Services.
“Thanks to our continued belief in the power of a wish, the Play for Wishes
event provides the opportunity to safely grant kids their wish, while
supporting their family at a time when they need it most.”
For a child fighting a critical illness, every day
of waiting for a wish is one too many. By participating in Play for
Wishes, you can help give a kid a piece of their
childhood back. Together we can transform lives one wish at a time!
ABOUT MAKE-A-WISH®
CANADA
Make-A-Wish®
creates life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses. We are on a quest to bring every eligible child's wish to
life, because a wish is an integral part of a child's treatment journey.
Research shows children who have wishes granted can build the physical and
emotional strength they need to fight a critical illness. Headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, Make-A-Wish is
the world’s leading children’s wish-granting organization, serving children in
every community in Canada, and in more than 50 countries worldwide.
Since 1983, Make-A-Wish Canada has granted over
35,000 wishes across the country, over 1,000 last year alone. For more
information about Make-A-Wish Canada, visit makeawish.ca.
About the Honda Canada Foundation
Established in 2005, the Honda Canada Foundation (HCF) aims to enable the
realization of dreams through various annual philanthropic activities and
funding to non-profit registered charities across Canada where Honda customers
and associates live, work and play. The HCF focuses on four key pillars –
family, environment, engineering and education – and each year more than $2
million is disbursed to groups in need. More than six million Canadians have
benefited from Honda Canada and Honda Canada Foundation funded charitable
programs. For more information, please visit www.hondacanadafoundation.ca
