- For any of you that aren't already following
the Make a Wish Foundation, there are links
in the description of this video.
You can donate, you can subscribe to their channel.
Just please show them any love and support that you can
because they're showing a lot of love and support
for a lot of wonderful, wonderful humans.
- They are an absolute amazing organization.
They do so many wonderful things.
I love them.
- Luke's diagnosis came as a complete shock.
- (father) They came in and told us, "Your son has cancer."
- Aww.
- That's the worst. - (father) Basically...
it was as blunt as that.
- (Janelle) Make a Wish contacted us and sent out
a lady to-- - That's so sweet!
Oh, the signs.
- (Janelle) ...kind of make that connection.
- You're making me tear up.
- (Janelle) And also, you know, decide what would be
the best wish for Luke.
- (father) He wanted to go to Disneyland. - As every kid does.
- Everybody loves Disneyland.
- (father) Not Disney World, because Disney World,
they don't have Cars Land. - That's a good point, Luke.
Disney World does not have Cars Land.
- (Luke) [Inaudible], give him a high-five on the head.
- He is adorable!
- Oh, this is so beautiful.
- (father) We're the 100,000th wish for Disney?
- (Janelle) You are the 100,000th. - Wow.
- 100,000.
- (Janelle) More special moment for us and our family to be involved in.
- (father) We did the first ride-- - That looks cool.
- (father) But he was looking most-- - That is so fun.
- (father) We'd do the race.
He'd scream and they'd scream-- - (laughing)
- (father) And we won. - Aww!
- (father) And he'd just put his hands up in the air high--
as loud as he could, "We won! We won!"
- I'm going to cry.
- (father) That's when I got emotional because it was what he came here for...
- This is amazing. - (father) ...was to win that race,
and this is just going to help propel us to finish this race
and beat this cancer.
- Oh, he's so happy!
- (sighing) That is so incredibly sweet.
- It warms your heart and it makes you so happy
that there is an organization like Make a Wish
that does this for people.
It's just incredible.
- (father) They said Landry had AVM, which is arteriovenous malformation.
Lan had brain surgery when he was nine months old.
- (gasping) - (father) It was a pretty trying time.
Then we got a call and they said Landry was granted a wish
and we were, like, ecstatic. - Wow.
- (Landry) Make a Wish is building me a tree house.
- Oh, you're so cute!
- (Landry) And I want my whole family with me in there.
- Oh my gosh! That is too cute.
♪ (inspirational music) ♪
- Aww! - That's amazing.
- That is my dream.
- That is a tree house.
- Who is your interior designer? Please let me know.
- (volunteer) It is upon this day, decreed in this proclamation
by Make a Wish, that Landry receive this wish for a tree house!
- I think he got his wish.
- Dude, he got a zipline on his tree house?
That's above and beyond, Make a Wish.
That's pretty good.
- (Landry) Thank you, Make a Wish, for my tree house.
♪ (touching music) ♪
- Damn, they're, like, not sad at all.
(laughing)
- What a sweet wish, a tree house for you and your family?
- As a kid, I would have freaked out.
- Yeah, all he wanted was a fricking tree house
and they're like, "Sure, we'll build you a tree house.
No problem."
And they give him a zipline and everything.
- With the camo shades. - He was a king!
- Hey, if you guys want to donate to Make a Wish,
there are links below, different ways you can help out,
so do that and make a little kid smile!
- (Rosie) We met a consultant who told us Aideen had myelodysplastic syndrome
and that she needed a bone marrow transplant.
- Wow.
- (mother) Five weeks later, the graft-versus-host disease set in
and it came back Stage IV-- - Oh my god.
- Oof, that's tough.
- (Rosie) They told us then that she had very little chance of survival.
When we sent out what we call our wish book,
the book came back and it was everything to do with Barbie.
- (Kim) All of us wanted to make this day perfect for her
and from every single detail to the flowers in her office,
to her business cards that we sent her--
- Oh my gosh.
- Whoa, they went-- Mattel went hard.
- (sister) I am so happy to invite you to join my team
as a Barbie fashion designer.
Once you arrive at Los Angeles airport, a limo will pick you up.
You will know it's-- - Oh my gosh!
It's a pink Barbie limo!
- Oh, I like the pink limo.
- (Kim) We wanted her to experience the full--
- Oh, she is-- look at her. She's on the phone.
She's like, (sassily) "Yeah!"
- Aww, baby girl.
- That's cool. Did she design a Barbie?
- (Rosie) It's great seeing her smile and her wish come true.
- Oh my gosh! (exclaiming)
- (Aideen) Use your own designs from your heart.
- It's amazing how personalized they make each one.
- So cute.
I am so happy for her.
She got to do something she's always wanted to do.
- (Kiley) Cayden, he wants to record a song in LA.
That's great and we can send him there, absolutely,
but he wants to be a pop star, so what-- what does that mean?
- (Carter) Cayden has been through so much.
He has been through open brain surgery,
shunts installed, ports installed, chemotherapy.
- (Cayden) First, when they came out, I'm like,
"What the heck is going on?"
- (Kiley) They were just kind of telling him,
"Here's what's going to happen to you."
Now you're getting ready to go to LA today.
You're leaving on a plane today.
- What?!
- (Kiley) Other kids, on their own, started chanting.
All you could hear was, "Cayden!"
- Aww!
- (Kiley) I remember getting tears in my eyes...
- He looks like a super star.
- (Kiley) That vision of them lined up, people everywhere, screaming,
and then Cayden getting to walk out there was like, okay,
here we go.
- (laughing) - Oh my gosh!
The escorts and everything.
- He's about to drop the hottest album.
- (volunteer) He goes to the airport, gets on a plane--
- Goes like a celebrity.
- People are asking for him to sign their arms.
- (volunteer) Goes to Macy's, does his photoshoot,
we get the updates, he's recording.
♪ (pop music) ♪ - (Cayden) ♪ My heart's a stereo ♪
♪ It beats for you... ♪ - I feel it. It's good.
- Aww! - He's got a good voice.
- Yeah.
- (Cayden) ♪ ...no-o-o-te ♪
I couldn't believe I met Mario Lopez.
- Oh my gosh! He was on Extra.
- (Mario Lopez) You've been named the pop star for the day.
So how does that make you feel? - (Cayden) Good.
♪ Here comes the sun ♪
♪ Doo doo doo doo ♪ (crowd clapping rhythmically)
♪ Here comes the sun ♪
♪ And I said it's all right ♪
(vocalizing)
- Yeah! (crowd whooping)
- Oh, I love Cayden.
- (agent) People got so excited behind this wish.
- This is so cute.
- (Kiley) This one child affected an entire community of people.
- (Missy) It's so much bigger than-- - Oh, that's amazing.
- (Missy) I mean, it is the true power of a wish.
- I love that. So many people came together for that wish.
- He got to experience a piece of life
that is seriously a dream.
- It's incredible what this foundation is doing.
Until you actually watch the videos and you see the experiences
that they're providing for kids, you don't really know
how much work and effort and dedication
and personalizing goes into it, and it's really inspiring
and it just makes you feel like how can I help?
- Kids' wishes were to meet my sister and I always helped out,
and the kids were always so happy.
It's amazing to work with a company that makes them,
you know, have a childhood for at least a day.
- We had the opportunity to do a Make a Wish fulfillment.
He was this kid and he's like, yeah, he had broken
every bone in his body at that point.
For us to have the chance to be able to do that was awesome
and it was something that was a real highlight.
- I've been able to make four wishes come true so far.
And their wish was they wanted to hang out
and bake with me for the day.
I met a girl with an inoperable brain tumor
at such a young age.
It's just not very common, and doing anything that you can
to make someone else feel better, raise their spirits,
is the least that I could do.
- (FBE) So how does Make a Wish and watching these videos make you feel?
- Really good. I'm glad that there's something there
that is, you know, doing that for people.
It's not just, you know, giving a kid one special day at Disneyland.
It's actually helping that kid to survive.
- It makes me happy to know that these kids are, you know,
they're having a great time.
You are a centerpiece to their life in a way.
It's an overwhelming sense of love and respect
that I don't think many other people can top.
- Make a Wish is putting such a positive impact on their lives,
and just to see that is so heartwarming.
- It makes me sad because, obviously, kids are going through terribleness,
but it makes me so happy that people are donating their time
and their efforts into making these kids happy.
- I feel so bad for the kids that are so young
and they've been placed with such hardships and burdens on them.
But then I become so overwhelmed with happiness
when I see people doing right by them
and trying to lift their spirits and make their wishes
or dreams come true.
- (FBE) We're covering Make a Wish in part because April 29th
is World Wish Day, which helps to celebrate everyone
who helps make these wishes come true.
What kind of an impact do you think people who help to grant wishes
can have on a child's life? - A huge impact.
- If everybody was like that, this world would be so different.
- To them, it's just a little moment,
but for the individual, it's their whole life.
- They have a huge impact!
They're the ones that are putting it together
and working day and night sometimes just to make it happen.
- They're getting the wish of their dreams,
the wish of a lifetime, and then when that comes true for them,
it's almost like there's just no way to measure that.
- They're all focusing around the experiences for a single kid.
By being so concentrated, you can have such a tremendous impact
on a single person, and I think that is something worthwhile.
- They should feel so good about what they're doing.
Volunteering their time or resources, energy,
because it is truly changing lives.
- It's massively important to have a moment in time
to thank all the people that work so hard
to make these sort of outcomes happen
because they're doing it on their own accord.
They're not doing it for praise or gratitude.
They're doing it out of what I imagine is the goodness of their hearts,
so it's important for us to appreciate other people's great efforts,
especially when we're not regularly doing as much as they're doing,
so I think they're great people
and I'm glad we have a day to celebrate them.
- (FBE) Finally, there are so many ways to get involved with Make a Wish,
and it's not just donations.
There's over 40,000 volunteers who help grant wishes
around the world each year.
What do you want to say to everyone watching right now
about why you should get involved?
- Uh, you should get involved in Make a Wish because
you never know who you're going to save
and how it's going to affect you.
It could make your life so much better.
Who wouldn't want to be a part of an organization
that just brings smiles to people?
- You guys, support it because, at the end of the day,
we're all human.
If there's just a little bit of positivity that we can spread,
and a little bit of hope that we can spread,
it will go a long way.
- It's no question Make a Wish is a fantastic organization.
I mean, anyway you can help: donate, volunteer, do it.
- What Make a Wish does for people around the world
is so incredible and if you can, you know, volunteer
or get behind Make a Wish and donate,
anything that you can, it makes a huge difference
in people's lives.
- Whenever you're going through hardships,
having someone in your corner can make all the difference,
and that's exactly what Make a Wish does.
- Hey, guys, this episode is all about supporting Make a Wish.
- So take part and support in any way that you can.
- Thanks for watching, everyone, and happy World Wish Day.
- Hey, guys, I'm Ethan-- - And I'm Alyssa
and we're part of the production team that helped put this episode together.
- Please show your support for the Make a Wish Foundation
however you can-- volunteer, donate, spread the word.
It all helps. - Thank you so much for watching, guys.
Bye!