Help us keep the car to keep us creating memories

$15,000 of $15,000 goal
Given by 23 generous donors in 19 days

3 years ago Baby Loss NZ won a car for 3 years through the Toyota competition '25 Ways to give Thanks'. This car was due back 1st April 2016

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3 years ago Baby Loss NZ won a car for 3 years through the Toyota competition '25 Ways to give Thanks'. This car was due back 1st April 2016. We have been desperately trying to source funding/a sponsor to help us keep the car but sadly all attempts have failed so far.

Toyota NZ have been amazing in allowing us to continue to use the car for 6 weeks over our time frame and have granted us a last 2 weeks to see what we can do. We are fast running out of time hence this page being set up. Without our car, I cannot get to the hospital to meet precious baby’s and as we know, some babies for cultural reasons, need to be buried extremely quickly. For other families, they simply want to leave the hospital environment quickly. Without a car, these families would miss out on the precious memories we provide.

With only Josie and I meeting these families and Josie working as a full time teacher, it is me who is able to drop everything and run when a call comes in. Without the car, I cannot do that anymore. With only one income as my time is 100% voluntary, hubby and I cannot afford to buy a car for me to use.

The number of babies we meet is staggering and this year alone, we have now met 70 precious babies to make memories for and that's just in Auckland. Many of these were met during the day because of the car we won.

Please help, thank you

Sarah (GM) and Josie (Chairperson)

Baby Loss NZ

Baby Loss NZ's involvement (page creator)

I am the General Manager of Baby Loss NZ, Josie is the Chairperson. The two of us meet families whose precious baby has died and help them parent their baby and create tangible memories for them to treasurer. All services are 100% free of charge to bereaved families. Our main page shows more about what we do.

About us

Providing parents with a care bag containing various memory making materials such as special memory books, inkless hand/footprint kits, certificates of life,candles, a memory box and teddy bears. The free tangible memory making service give families hand and foot castings (frames, on granite and loose) hand/footprints and photographs. We offer parents support group meetings, phone/email support and one on one contact.

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Andrew & Jo Payne
Andrew & Jo Payne on 19 May 2016
Having been through this ourselves we appreciate the work you do.
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Marion
Marion on 18 May 2016
Good Luck. Wish we'd had a memento of our little girl who died at child birth 33 years ago.
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Sophie Pope
Sophie Pope on 18 May 2016
A wonderful service that helped my sister-in-law and her husband through a difficult time.... I wish no-one needed your services! but unfortunately it is needed, and you do a wonderful job x
$50
Bull family
Bull family on 17 May 2016
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Guest Donor
Guest Donor on 17 May 2016
$20

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This campaign started on 12 May 2016 and ended on 31 May 2016.