When 19 - year year - old Sophia Giorgi said she was thinking of volunteering to help the Make-A-Wish Foundation , nobody understood what she was talking about . But Sophia knew just how important Make - A - Wish could be because this special organization had helped to make a dream come true for one of her best friends . We were interested in finding out more , so we went along to meet Sophia and listen to what she had to say .