Variety Grants Safe Wishes

Saturday, January 18, 2025

Make-A-Wish Iowa creates life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses – occasionally these wishes can be met with challenges from the planning stages due to a child’s critical illness or where they are in their treatment plan when they choose to have their wish. The Wish Specialist team at Make-A-Wish Iowa meets and discusses potential safety or health hazards with each child’s medical team when planning each wish. This is especially important when planning a travel wish. Families traveling with a child who has a critical illness are often traveling with medical equipment, special food, medication, and much more.

Thanks to a Variety Grant, Make-A-Wish Iowa now has five specialized travel car seats to have on hand for children with limited head, neck and trunk control, to use for their travel wishes. Children ages 2.5-6 years old who fit into the height and weight requirements of these seats will now be able to use them during their travel wishes, making it easier for families to safely travel and enjoy their wish trips!

Wish kid, Judge, wanted to visit a Florida theme park for his wish. His family had one of the travel seats provided and his mom, Jocelyn shared the following, “The seat was AMAZING! Not going to lie; with all the stuff and three kids, plus Judge’s medical items, we had to take so much. Also, Judge isn’t able to help with his items, so it was helpful that the seat was so small. The seat is lightweight and so easy to use and wow, the backpack for it was super handy! Highly, highly recommend!”

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