August 19th – Day of Hope

On August 19th 2008 the very beginnings of Project Heal was born. Since that cold Winter’s day, I have been visiting the Christian’s Beach on most evenings to honour and remember the lives of babies and children that have left us too soon. We wanted to mark this anniversary of Christian’s Legacy beginning by creating a movement. A day of speaking aloud about the babies and children that are no longer here. It is a day healing and a day of HOPE. August 19th breaks the silence surrounding the death of babies and children. We want August 19th – Day of Hope to be a movement of peace and so if this speaks to your heart you may want to read on.

I feel so very fortunate to live in a time where so many of us are working together to break down the walls of society that keep the death of babies and children of any age or gestation a hush-hush subject. So many people view the death of a baby as just a sad thing that happened. These babies that die are not sad things that happen. They are human beings and much-loved and wanted sons and daughters, brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews, grandsons and granddaughters.