Face masks for Families
Up and down the country we have families in need of reusable facemasks, can you help us?!
– do you have material or elastic you can donate?
– can you sew?
– do you have masks to donate?
It’s especially important for parents who visit their babies in a neonatal unit to have access to facemasks so they’re able to safely walk through hospital sand public areas to get to their baby in the unit. They’re under enough stress at the moment without the added complication of trying to source masks.  The Little Miracles Trust is therefore aiming to supply every parent who’s baby is in a unit in Zealand with a reusable mask.
At any one time there are approximately 400 babies in a unit, either in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) or special care baby unit (SCBU)Â so we’re currently looking at somewhere between 800 to 1000 masks required.
If you’re keen to help us assist neonatal families, please contact us on info@littlemiraclestrust.org.nz we’d love to hear from you!
You can also read to our plea on Radio NZ news here
Thanks so much for sharing your personal story!
We get a lot of positive feedback from families in a neonatal unit who read these stories and feel strength, hope and positivity knowing that they are not alone going through these experiences and feeling certain emotions.
If you would like to discuss sharing the story of your neonatal journey, we’d love to hear from you.
Support Us
If you want to help our support of families going through the stress and anxiety of a neonatal journey, you can donate via the link below.
- The Little Miracles Trust provides support to families of premature or sick full-term babies as they make their journey through Neonatal Intensive Care, the transition home, and onwards. We do not receive any Government funding and are entirely reliant on the generosity of individuals, companies and organisations in the form of donations, value-in-kind donations, grants, sponsorship and fundraising events to supplement operating costs and fund our services and initiatives.
- As we are a registered charity (CC56619) with Charities Services New Zealand we will send you an IRD compliant tax receipt – this will happen automatically by return email.