We welcome volunteers from all backgrounds, recognizing the diverse skills and abilities they bring to us. Whether through administrative support, helping us raise funds, organizing family activities or granting wishes, our volunteers make our children's wishes come true.
Volunteers support us in many ways and are placed based on their skills, interests, and availability of positions. Please consider your skills, goals, and motivation when deciding what interests you most.
By volunteering you can learn new skills, make new friends and have fun, all while enjoying the feeling of making a difference and knowing that your help is helping the organisation achieve its goal of making sick children's wishes come true in the most magical way possible.
Who can volunteer for Make-A-Wish?
To be eligible, a volunteer must be 18 years of age or older.
How much available time would I need to commit to the foundation?
As a volunteer, you decide for yourself how much time you can commit. Many of our volunteers also have jobs, families and various social commitments. Make-A-Wish is grateful to all of our volunteers for the time they are able to give us.
What skills do I need to be a Make-A-Wish volunteer?
There are no essential skills to become a volunteer. All we ask is that you have a strong motivation to make a real difference and empathy for our children. However, for fundraising, event management, public relations, administration or project management, certain skills are a bonus!
Do Make-A-Wish volunteers have to undergo any special screening?
As a children's charity, all of our volunteers are required to provide us with a criminal record extract which costs CHF 20.- and which we reimburse them. This criminal record extract must be given to us once we have agreed to collaborate.
“Working for Make-A-Wish helps make the world a little better for a child in my own small way. I love supporting Make-A-Wish projects and am proud to be a part of the important work that is being done.”
Folake, Make-A-Wish volunteer