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We're raising £25,000 to produce 1000 of our popular Gift Of Hope bereavement support packs to supply free of charge to UK hospitals as part of the "Help Our Hospitals" campaign. By donating these packs, we will the be helping to close the gap in bereavement support services for parents of Muslim children who die.

Did you know that although the UK has one of the most advanced health systems, we have one of the highest child mortality rates in Western Europe? That over 2000 babies a year die in the first 4 weeks of their life, that 3500 are stillborn? Or that 6,000 children and young people die in the UK each year?

Death has a huge, lasting and deeply profound effect on the parents and families of these children - we know that it leaves parents numb, shattered, heartbroken and reeling from the loss.

This pain, especially when parents don’t have the appropriate support and understanding around them, can feel like being locked in a dark room forever, constantly pushing down that bubbling grief as they try to get through each day.

Those around them, although they express sympathy and they mean well, can’t offer the support that they need; the understanding - without judgement – and the help that they need to process their grief.  

Many bereaved parents, especially those in the Muslim community, never seek or find appropriate grief recovery support and this results in a very large number of distressed people who are in desperate need of help - to move them through their grief.

With Children of Jannah's Gift Of Hope Bereavement Support Packs, bereaved parents can feel the comfort of faith-based grief recovery whenever they need it.

The Gift Of Hope Packs contain many great features:

• Sorrow To Serenity: 12 Ways To Help A Parent Find Peace Through The Pain Of Child Loss 
• Solace: A Little Book of Reminders For Grief Relief
• Where Is My Child?
• Grief, Loss & Mourning
• You're Not Alone
• Journal & Pen
• Du'a Reminder Card
• Elegant Hard Box

1. Providing support that reflects the Muslim faith – When it comes to grief, finding understanding is so important – not just understanding of the emotions of grief but understanding that takes account of the personal beliefs, culture and religion of the bereaved parent which are so integral to the way in which they live their lives and understand the death of their child.
   
   
2. Providing a resource to turn to at any time – The beauty of these packs is that they can be kept and turned to at any time, day or night, in the days and weeks following the loss of a child, or years later. Grief has no watch or calendar – the advice and information provided inside the Gift Of Hope Packs is not only priceless but also timeless, as a constant source of comfort. 
   
   
3. Answering questions bereaved parents may have – With loss and grief comes shock, confusion, anger and the task of continuing life without a much-loved or much-longed for child. In all of this are questions to which the answers are vital for bereaved parents: Why did my child died? Why did this happen to me? Where are they now? How can I go on?
   
   
4. Explaining emotions that may be experienced in grief — Grief is a real storm of emotions that strikes with full force and whilst it is entirely human and inevitable, it is a real mix. From distress to anger, from outward expression to inward withdrawal, the Gift Of Hope Packs will recognize those emotions and help explain why bereaved parents are experiencing them, thereby providing understanding and the opportunity to begin to work through each feeling. 
   
   
5. Giving parents a way to turn to their faith for comfort — Expression of grief is so important and with the Gift Of Hope Packs, bereaved parents will have the opportunity to write down emotions in a way which will provide a private, personal therapeutic expression – thereby relieving some of the burden of grief.

How valuable are the Gift Of Hope Packs?

Here’s what one of our parents who was gifted a Gift Of Hope Pack said: 

The Children of Jannah Gift Of Hope Pack has helped me to come to terms with the loss of my son. It’s exactly the comfort any grieving parent needs and, what’s even better, it’s backed up with the Qur’an & Hadith. …Journeying through the box helped me move on and accept that death is a part of life that we all must face at some point in our lives; it offered me the light of the Qur’an & Sunnah, and undoubtedly, I would recommend this to anyone who has suffered child loss. It has everything you need, and more, masha Allah, and it is an initiative worthy of our support.

But how do we know that the Gift Of Hope Packs will really help bereaved parents? The answer is in the words and lives of the parents whom we have helped. They tell us time and time again how they searched for information, resources, booklets which would discuss grief from an Islamic perspective, answer their questions and provide them with comfort.

Children of Jannah's Gift Of Hope Packs are exactly that – a gift which can give bereaved parents hope for a time when they will be able to see beyond their loss, cope with the grief and move forward.

The Gift Of Hope Packs provide the benefit of not only addressing the subject of child loss and grief but also providing evidence and teachings from the Qur’an and hadith – thereby providing the personal, spiritual and faith-based support which is so important to so many.

With exclusive content and resources, reminders and the opportunity to write down feelings, the Gift Of Hope packs are unique, precious and vital to so many who are experiencing the turmoil of grief alone.

The price of one Gift Of Hope Pack is just £25 GBP.

You can help grieving parents move beyond the pain of child loss; ordinary people suffering in their grief in silence.

You can help by providing them with faith-based resources and information to comfort and soothe their souls.

DONATE NOW to begin supporting parents in desperate need of understanding, hope and healing.

Thank you.

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