Zachary is running the Ealing mini-mile this year and hoping to raise some money for charity in the name of Amara, lovingly known as Googi. Googi was the daughter of my dear friend and colleague Sonal, and the sister of Zachary's bestie Ariana. Googi was born 3 days before my little girl, Isabella, and we spent our maternity leaves looking after them together with Sonal. Googi passed away unexpectedly in December 2019 from Infuenza, having previously been a bright, happy and healthy little girl. Words cannot describe how much pain her family have been through. In the dark days that followed, Googi's family found some comfort through the care they received by the West Middlesex Hospital bereavement team. The money raised from this event, every single penny of it, will go to support the very same bereavement team at West Mid directly. Any donation would be much appreciated. Thank you, friends and family!

This is Googi's story as written by her family:

This October 7th will be our little girl Amara’s 3rd birthday. Cheeky Amara loved nothing more than good food and would be diving face first into her birthday carrot cake….Tragically however, we lost her to flu on Xmas 2019 when she was just 14 months old. Our lives will never be the same.To celebrate Amara, her older sister Ariana and her friends are running the Ealing mini-mile on 25th September as part of TEAM AMARA. We are doing this to raise sponsorship for Chelsea and Westminster’s CW + charity, so as to fund bereavement services at West Middlesex Hospital, who have been a tremendous source of support to us in the immediate aftermath of Amara’s death and beyond. Together we hope ro achieve £3000 to celebrate 3 years of loving Amara.Your money will help provide support to other parents who lose a baby in pregnancy or as a young child, for example by providing 3D casts of hands and feet so precious memories can be preserved forever. No parent should ever have to go through this, but for those that do, please donate what you can. We hope that the funding raised can help provide at least a little comfort to remember the children that have gone too soon. Amara, this one’s for you, Happy 3rd birthday my darling.Sonal and Vikas x