Christianna Fraschilla was recently granted a dream from the Sunshine Foundation for music recording sessions. She debuted her newly-recorded singles as part of the 12th annual Sunshine Foundation Virtual Gala, held on Oct. 16.
Sunshine Foundation, headquartered in Southampton, answers dreams to children with lifelong chronic conditions, such as spina bifida, cerebral palsy, severe profound autism, Down syndrome, hydrocephalus, severe epilepsy, Sickle Cell Disease, blindness, deafness and many others. Fraschilla lives with the challenges of eye and vision disorders – Aniridia and Glaucoma.
Sunshine Foundation provides a Dream Come True for children that may be turned away from other wish-granting organizations that require a life-threatening or critical diagnosis. Sunshine Foundation relies on the generosity of donations from individuals and corporations to make these dreams a reality. The foundation answered Frascilla’s Dream Come True through donations from a generous donor.
“Thanks so very much again to the Sunshine Foundation and their very generous donors for making this dream of Christianna’s a reality,” said her mom Caterina. “You could see the excitement on her face in the studio, which happened to be on her 16th birthday.”
The most common dream is to visit Disney World, Legoland, SeaWorld and Universal Studios while staying at the Sunshine Foundation Dream Village near Disney. Sunshine Foundation also answers Special Dreams like shopping sprees, computers and iPads, meeting celebrities, above-ground swimming pools, family trips, adaptive tricycles and other special needs equipment.
Sunshine Foundation is the original wish-granting organization in the U.S., established in 1976 to answer the dreams of children ages 3-18 who have severe or profound physical/developmental/intellectual challenges or trauma from physical/sexual abuse, and who families cannot fulfill their requests due to financial strain that the child’s illness may cause. The foundation has spread sunshine into the lives of more than 41,500 children across the country.
Visit sunshinefoundation.org for more information.
