“3 Wish Club” Helps Displaced Students

(CEDAR RAPIDS-KWWL) Some high schoolers are becoming “genies.”

Students at Washington High School in Cedar Rapids, started the “Wash-Taylor 3 Wish Club” to grant one large, medium, and small wish for Taylor Elementary School students. Taylor is closed for the year and students are spread throughout the district.

A Washington High School junior and her dad actually came up with the idea for the club. They help out with Big Brothers Big Sisters and their “little” brother, Elijah Bahati, is a Taylor student.

10-year-old Bahati was one of the first to put in his wishes.

“One to go to Atlanta, two to get a little car you can drive, three to get a Nintendo DS game,” said Bahati.

The Wash-Taylor 3 Wish Club hopes to grant the wishes of Elijah and other Taylor students.

Washington junior Hannah Wheeler and her dad came up with the club.

“We don’t know what we’re capable of doing right now it just depends on what the child views as a big wish. Elijah I know wants to go to Atlanta to visit his cousin, and I think that’s possible if people donate frequent flyer miles or something like that,” said Hannah Wheeler.

Wheeler and her friend Bailey Sande have already recruited help from more than 125 high school students.

“Help Taylor, let them know nobody forgot about their school. We want to help,” said Bailey Sande.

Now they need help from businesses and the community to fulfill the childrens’ wish lists.

“X-boxes and scooters and Nintendo games,” said Sande.

Any student who attended Taylor for at least one semester last year qualifies for the 3 Wish Club.

“We can’t guarantee every wish will be granted, but we at least want to grant one for every kid. That’s our goal,” said Sande.

To donate to the wish list or sign up to receive wishes, email wash-taylor3wishclub@live.com

–Danielle Wagner, Reporter.

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