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IT’S ALL ABOUT
THE KIDS
Make-A-Wish ® Ireland is encouraging Transition
Year students to get involved with their ‘Kids for
Wish Kids’ Schools Entrepreneurship Awards
2015/2016. Now in its second year, the awards
programme was created to help translate the
ingenuity, energy and business acumen of young
people into magical wishes for brave children
who are battling life threating medical conditions.
Open to all secondary schools across the country,
the competition will run until Monday 15th
December, and will be judged by a well-known
judging panel of experts; Entrepreneur,
Broadcaster and Publisher Norah Casey; Director
of Marketing at Peter Mark, Jenny McDermott;
Head of Enterprise Development at Bank of
Ireland, Gerry Prizeman; and PRO at National
Parents Council Post Primary Lynda O’Shea.
Last year saw awards given to schools around
Ireland for their skills in ‘Creativity and
Entrepreneurship’; ‘Marketing and
Communications’; ‘Commerciality’; and ‘funds
raised’. Students also received a professional
reference for their CV from the prestigious
judging panel.
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Susan O’Dwyer, Chief Executive of Make-A-Wish
said, “Schools play a very important part in
helping us grant wishes. Children who are living
with a life-threatening medical condition spend
most of their time in hospitals undergoing painful
treatments instead of attending school, having fun
with their family and friends, or doing their
favorite activities. Young people really identify
with what it must be like for another kid to be sick
and restricted in what they can do.”
Susan went on to say “We wanted to use these
awards to acknowledge young people’s amazing
fundraising efforts on our behalf and, hopefully
open up new opportunities for more young
people to help us grant more magical wishes.”
For students wishing to take part in this year’s
event, they can carry out their project from now
until December 14th 2015. Check out
www.makeawish.ie for further details or email
Make-A-Wish Schools Fundraising Officer at
[email protected]
Make-A-Wish Foundation
Make-A-Wish® in Ireland has one simple aim - to
grant the wishes of children aged between 3 and
17 years who are battling life threatening medical
conditions such as cancer, cystic fibrosis, heart
disease, muscular dystrophy, cerebral palsy and
many others.
A wish granted is true magic for the child providing
respite from their normal routines of hospitals,
doctors and treatment.
Since its inception in 1992, Make-A-Wish® in Ireland
has granted wishes for over 1,700 children and
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