Our aim is to provide a designated baby memorial that has been long overdue within the Queenstown area. Providing families a place to be able to grieve, reflect on and acknowledge their beloved babies whom have died far too soon. We hope to make this a special place of rest to honour them, to break down the walls of displacement and will hopefully provide some relief to the decisions parents have
to make during a very unexpected & stressful time. Itβs about giving families some choices and some control during these devastating times. The memorial will be open to everyone, there are no exclusions; Mums, Dads, Grandparents, siblings & international visitors, we all have the right to honour a baby's loss, from the early loss within the first few weeks of pregnancy, upwards. The loss of a much loved baby can be devastatingly heart breaking at any time. Myself and my dear friend Natasha both know first-hand what the impact of losing a baby is like and became friends though my loss 5years ago. We both now volunteer for charity run organisation Sands which support families in the local area during their darkest days and hopefully provide some light. So....we have set this page up as a result of the over whelming positive response we had to our petition. Many people have asked how do they keep informed of things are progressing.....so here we are! We have no current time frame of the finish project, were very much in the early concept stages, but firstly what we needed was the communities support, with this information we will give this to council which will confirm to them that this is very much needed here. All going well the memorial will be included in a designated 'Children's' area within the new Lower Shotover Cemetery.