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Soccer group rallies round Md. Make-A-Wish teen in battle with most cancers
Throughout the month of April, WTOP is highlighting our partnership with Make-A-Wish Mid-Atlantic and Operation Dream Maker, which raises cash to meet the needs of the kids of our nation’s army heroes recognized with essential sicknesses.
Last yr, Make-A-Wish Mid-Atlantic granted 386 needs in the D.C. space, and this yr, with your assist, leaders at the group say they hope to grant much more.
The nonprofit mentioned round a 3rd of the children who get needs in the area every year are these with mother and father or guardians who’re serving or have served in the army.
In at this time’s episode of “Matt About Town,” WTOP’s Matt Kaufax met 13-year-old Leanna from Pasadena, Maryland. Her journey preventing most cancers and her expertise assembly the U.S. girls’s nationwide soccer workforce as half of her want will transfer and encourage you.
Through all the ups and downs, Leanna and her household mentioned they by no means gave up. And Leanna by no means misplaced her aggressive edge.
It’s a troublesome mentality she cast by way of her personal connection taking part in soccer. As Matt additionally discovered, Leanna’s teammates are like adopted sisters in her household and throughout the hardest elements of her remedy, they had been there for all of it.
Every yr on April 29, World Wish Day celebrates the anniversary of the founding of Make-A-Wish. April can also be each the Month of the Military Child and World Wish Month!
To discover extra tales like Leanna’s, meet different Wish Kids of the D.C. space and study how one can give again to the worthy trigger of turning a baby’s dream into actuality, you’ll be able to go to wtop.com/needs.
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