Hundreds gather for Walk for Wishes at Florida Gulf Coast University

Walk for Wishes. (Credit: WINK News)

Hundreds of people are gathering at Florida Gulf Coast University to take part in the Walk for Wishes on Saturday morning.

It is a nationwide Make a Wish fundraiser that helps give those life-changing wishes. WINK News is proud to be a sponsor.

In the video above, Reporter Nicole Gabe talks to one family with a leukemia survivor moments before the event begins.

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