Our flight took off from Budapest on Tuesday early morning, so I met David and his father at the airport around 4.30 am. Since they had never flown before, they were very excited and happy to finally travel by plane.
We landed in Barcelona in beautiful sunny weather. We took the metro to our hotel, conveniently located just a corner away from Camp Nou.

Next day we decided to visit the futball museum and the stadium. We marveled at the different trophies, such as the golden soccer balls of Messi, and the different pictures and videos.
It was very heart warming to see the statue of our fellow Hungarian, László Kubala. Naturally we took several photos in front of it.

Camp Nou is the largest futball stadium in Europe. We had a chance to see the change rooms, the press room, and even the chapel on our stadium tour.
Of course we spent plenty of time in the gift shop at the end.

In the afternoon we did some sightseeing, then walked down to the beach to check out the sea, which was another first for David and his father.
The following day we visited awe-inspiring La Sagrada Familia. We had never seen anything like that before. It cannot be described with words, everybody must visit it once if possible. There is nothing like that in the whole world. The exhibition about the life of Gaudi, his work, and the construction of the church was very interesting and informative. It made us appreciate this marvelous piece of art and architecture even more.

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Next day was the big day, the day of the Game, Barca against Osasuna. Because it only started at 19.30, we had the whole day for more sightseeing. We had great seats, quite close to the field, and luckily covered, as we found out when 20 minutes into the game it started raining. Before the start of the game a huge banner was lowered on the opposite side thanking Messi for the 500 goals that he had scored in the Champions League games. Then the eagerly awaited match started.
The first goal was scored within 20 minutes by Messi of course. Then the goals started coming in quick succession, with a 7 to 1 end result.
The game was spectacular all along. After the fifth goal we had a discussion about whether there would be one or two more. Well, it was two.
After the game we had a great dinner, then retired.

The following day we visited another landmark of Barcelona, the Güell Park.
Unfortunately it was a rainy day, but the park was still a fantastic experience. Sadly next day it was time to go home. After another early start, since our flight was delayed, we had plenty of time to browse in the shops at the airport.

After a pleasant flight David returned home as a happy, cheerful young man, full of exciting experiences.

Ákos Varga
wish-coordinator
Barcelona, April 28, 2017

While Zoltán Mátrai and his colleague built the long-awaited surprise, Polli has entertained us. We played hide and seek, baked and cooked in her little play kitchen, we draw and we laughed a lot.

Polli's big wish was to have a playground with a sloping slide in their yard! We could fulfill her dream on her birthday.
When the playground was ready, we had the little girl out to the yard. She saw the playground from the terrace and she became speechless, she covered her mouth with her hands as she was so surprised that her wish came true!!!

Attila Szitkai, one of our sponsors saw this request on our wishing list and he felt he had to fulfill the little girl’s dream. Attila likes playing guitar but he learnt it by himself. Kira, however is very seriously interested in playing instruments, so she would like to have lessons by a teacher.

Attila contacted me and we discussed the type and size of the guitar. Finally we made an appointment at the clinic. He took not only the requested guitar but a tuner, picks and a guitar case as an extra surprise present.

Kira was just about to left for home from the treatment when we arrived, so it was a real surprise. Kira was smiling all the time and she was very, very pleased.

Attila held an improvised show of his guitar knowledge and he also showed how the tuner worked. After having a good time, filled with happiness and joy, we said goodbye to Kira and her mother.
Attila told me that he received power, energy and happiness from the little girl. He would like to give good example to his friends and to encourage them to fulfill the wishes of sick children.

His eyes were shining and I was sure he was smiling under the mask. He quickly opened the box and was surprised because he also got a football game as an extra present. His father installed the game and Lackó could begin to play with it.

He could hardly wait to get home and play the new game with his young brother. Lackó, enjoy your present!

I am doing a voluntary work at Magic Lamp Foundation for many-many years now.
Participating in wish fulfilling always comes with a big joy. It happened again on 01.07.2017 when we fulfilled Laura’s wish.

I have known her for quite a long time and I follow her healing procedure. She is a smart, curious girl and she is really willing to study. She asked for a laptop computer to be able to learn independently, surf on the Internet and play as well.

She was arriving for her weekly treatment and maybe she was upset a bit because she had to go there earlier than usual.
But when she saw the package in my hands she immediately started to smile. She had already knew the reason of the big rush. She was careful with unwrapping the laptop and she was continuously smiling.

We would like to thank the Corinthia Hotel Budapest and it’s generous guests the selfless support, which could lead us to fulfill this wish.

The kid’s room got a new cabinet which was brought by the Magic Lamp Foundation.

Laura’s parents had already packed into it her things and now Laura enjoys packing them out of it.
But as for her toys, she personally put them into the lower drawers: she likes to pack her toys in and out of those.
As Laura suffers also from reduced mobility, she really needed a stable cabinet that won’t fall on her by accident.

Thanks to our sponsors and volunteers we could make happy another child, and her family too.

Read Fruzsina's own lines about her trip:

Four boys, one dream: to see the FC Barcelona playing a match "live".
And for one boy, it was a huge surprise, because Adorján’s parents hadn’t told him about the trip until they got to the airport. Neither of them have traveled by plane before and when the plane started to take off, they realized that this miracle is happening to them.

We arrived to Barcelona on Friday night. The less excited ones could sleep a little...
Next morning we were walking on the city’s famous mainstreet, the Rambla and we walked down to the port, but then we hurried back to our hotel because the boys needed time to get dressed in Barca colored clothes before the big match. We already knew that Messi was injured, but miraculously, he will be playing. We went to the Camp Nou by foot and we joined the crowd passing near to our hotel, all going to the stadium. First, we were just a small group of people, but et each crossing, more and more fans joined us.

The mood was really friendly and nice. Young parents with small children, like they were just going for a picnic. This reminds me that before and after our 3 day visit, it was cold and rain, but when we were there, it was 25° and sunshine. In the stadium, we were sitting near to a corner flag. There was a wonderful and exciting atmosphere, and not because of we were sitting in one of the world’s biggest stadium with full house, but because the city, the club and the Camp Nou was in the heart of the catalans. So this intensive feeling was love. We didn’t even wonder, that team Barcelona was warming up right next to our corner flag. Messi didn’t play during the first half, but this wasn’t a problem because Barca scored 3 goals to the Deportivo. In the second half, the catalans attacked to the side where we sat so we saw Neymar’s wonderful tricks very close. A bit later Messi joined, and it didn’t take long until he scored the 4th goal, which was the final score too. The catalan’s good mood has been secured for a while, everyone left the stadium euphorically. The city’s traffic was blocked in this area by the football fans.

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Dzsenifer is a fragile, beautiful young woman, who had never had a phone before. This is why she asked for one from the Csodalámpa Foundation.
She was so happy that she could hardly utter a word... She was just looking at her beautiful and colorful phone.
Dzsenifer still has a lot of treatments before her and long hospital stays and I hope that her new phone gives her a good and joyful time during the healing process.

Please read Arnold's own lines about his wish granting:

Anett is a pretty young woman, and she is in her third year in high school. At a scheduled treatment session we talked about her illness and many other things and also, that she can wish something because of her "magic lamp" illness.
She was endlessly happy and she told us her wish right away. She wanted a laptop.
Her dream was realised pretty fast, to her big surprise.
Her joy was unspeakable which can be seen in the picture. She really needed this computer for her studies and to keep in touch with her friends.

We are very grateful for Csodalámpa and it's supporters.

Gábor is a very quiet and introvert young man. He had a hard time figuring out what to wish, but finally he managed to make a wish. His sister, Eszter helped him a lot with the wish because her dream was already made true by Csodalámpa’s Genie. Gábor was really looking forward to see if it is possible to fulfill his wish...
Then on a warm summer day, late afternoon we arrived to their house with a big TV. It was a big surprise. Only Gábor’s mother and sister knew the secret, because Eszter found it out from their mom, but she kept it the secret, and didn’t tell her brother about it. The pictures show how happy and surprised was Gábor after getting his new TV. I’m finishing my report with his modest and suggestive words:
„I would like to thank all the Csodalámpa employees and supporters, because exept from my family, I have never got a surprise before.”

It was a big pleasure for me to fulfill this wish and see, how much happiness can Csodalámpa give to a family.

Regina is a 16 year old girl, who lives with her mother and sister in Bugyi. She goes to school in Budapest and if her illness lets her, she travels lots of hours on public transport to go to her classes.

She also spends a lot of time in the hospital because she is going to have a serious surgery soon.
Her grandmother is usually with her in the hospital, but she misses the rest of her family and her friends.

Her wish was an iPhone smartphone to help her to connect more easily with family and friends.
We were happy to fulfill her wish with the two helpful employees of Cisco, Viktória Beszédes and Katalin Komjáti.

Our two volunteers Laura Kékkúti and Peter Takács who live in London helped Anett and her brother to find the way in the big city.

Anett wrote us a kind letter:

2016. június 26-29. Wimbledon

Is it a miracle when two children wish for the exact same thing?

When the „same thing” means that both of them want to go to Disneyland Paris’s? It is not.
This is how it happened, that these two children found themselves on the plane to Paris, which took off at 6:30 am…

Both kids had their mothers with them for the big journey. Lili and her mother came from Kecskemét so they had to wake up really early to get to the airport in time. This was more difficult for Zsombi and his mother because Barcs is even more far away than Kecskemét. But thanks to the Airport Hotel's support, they could spend the night in a really nice hotel.

After the two hour flight we had to get on to a bus, then we arrived to our beautiful hotel. We spent the rest of the day in the Disneyland Park.

The first impression? A fantastic wonderland where you can meet face to face Snow White or even Frozen’s princess... But of course all this in a "smaller edition" an holding their parent’s hands.

The children from the Csodalámpa got impressed by the Park immediately. They couldn’t even decide which game they would like to try next. We tried almost everything in the 3 days we had including the „safer” roller coasters or haunted houses and some more frightening games like a 360-degree turn making roller coaster which just avoids meteorites. All of the games were themed by Disney movies. Of course besides the fun roller coasters, we had other fantastic experiences too. We traveled through Disneyland with a real Wild West styled steam-engine, we saw Sleeping Beauty’s palace, we flew on Alladin’s magic carpet, met and took a photo with „living” cartoon characters and we shooted the enemies with Buzz Lightyear’s laser gun.

We planned for the second night to watch the Disneyland Park’s final show which started at 11pm. It was a fantastic light show with fireworks. Sleeping Beauty’s palace turned into a large screen where cartoons showed us the never ending fight between bad and good…

We spent our last day in the neighboring Walt Disney Studios’s. Stepping out from the Studio No 1, the statue of Walt Disney welcommed us, who created all this for us.
There were a lot of things to try here too. For example we parachuted with the Toy Story’s commandos, we tried to escape from Ratatouille’s cook in 3D and in the size of a rat. We could see here a really interesting stunt show which was exciting and special not only because of the tricks (with cars, motors, and a burning stuntman) but because they told us some secrets about the tricks. But we keep these secrets for ourselves.

And how did the children enjoy the trip? The photos reveal this more than anything...

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Please read here the kind letter of Zsombor:

Is it a miracle when two children wish for the exact same thing?

When the „same thing” means that both of them want to go to Disneyland Paris? It is not.
This is how it happened, that these two children found themselves on the plane to Paris, which took off at 6:30 am…

Both kids had their mothers with them for the big journey. Lili and her mother came from Kecskemét so they had to wake up really early to get to the airport in time. This was more difficult for Zsombi and his mother because Barcs is even more far away than Kecskemét. But thanks to the Airport Hotel's support, they could spend the night in a really nice hotel.

After the two hour flight we had to get on to a bus, then we arrived to our beautiful hotel. We spent the rest of the day in the Disneyland Park.

The first impression? A fantastic wonderland where you can meet face to face Snow White or even Frozen’s princess... But of course all this in a "smaller edition" an holding their parent’s hands.

The children from the Csodalámpa got impressed by the Park immediately. They couldn’t even decide which game they would like to try next. We tried almost everything in the 3 days we had including the „safer” roller coasters or haunted houses and some more frightening games like a 360-degree turn making roller coaster which just avoids meteorites. All of the games were themed by Disney movies. Of course besides the fun roller coasters, we had other fantastic experiences too. We traveled through Disneyland with a real Wild West styled steam-engine, we saw Sleeping Beauty’s palace, we flew on Alladin’s magic carpet, met and took a photo with „living” cartoon characters and we shooted the enemies with Buzz Lightyear’s laser gun.

We planned for the second night to watch the Disneyland Park’s final show which started at 11pm. It was a fantastic light show with fireworks. Sleeping Beauty’s palace turned into a large screen where cartoons showed us the never ending fight between bad and good…

We spent our last day in the neighboring Walt Disney Studios’s. Stepping out from the Studio No 1, the statue of Walt Disney welcommed us, who created all this for us.
There were a lot of things to try here too. For example we parachuted with the Toy Story’s commandos, we tried to escape from Ratatouille’s cook in 3D and in the size of a rat. We could see here a really interesting stunt show which was exciting and special not only because of the tricks (with cars, motors, and a burning stuntman) but because they told us some secrets about the tricks. But we keep these secrets for ourselves.

And how did the children enjoy the trip? The photos reveal this more than anything...

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From now on bringing comfort to Noemi, there is a little furniture, which has been conjured up by Csodalampa Foundation’s jinn.

Get better soon, little Noemi!

Ksenia is three years old girl who lives in Ukraine with her mother, father and nine years old sister. To theat her severe illness she is taken to Debrecen regularly. She asked for a baby house from Csodalámpa in which she could play with her sister.

Ksenia and her mother were very happy when on Wednesday, in the early afternoon her gift arrived to the hospital. Everybody was amazed by her amazing baby house, children, nurses, doctors alike.

Ksenia and her family are greatful to Csodalámpa and the Benefactors for fulfilling her wish!

We wish you a lot of joy with your little house Ksenia, wo hope you and your sister will play a lot in it!

Judit Miholecz
Wish coordinator
Debrecen, 11.05.2016.