Our Chosen Charities
Posted on July 01 2020
“Better, healthier outcomes for newborns and their families challenged by prematurity and sickness.”
Miracle Babies Foundation is Australia’s leading organisation supporting premature and sick newborns, their families and the hospitals that care for them.
Every year in Australia around 48,000 newborn babies require the help of a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) or Special Care Nursery (SCN). 27,000 of these babies are born premature and up to 1,000 babies lose their fight for life.
For families, the experience of having a baby come into the world not as expected or planned is life changing. Without support, this overwhelming and traumatic experience can have lifelong effects on the emotional wellbeing of these miracle families. It affects the entire family unit.
Since 2005, Miracle Babies Foundation has been passionate in developing and providing vital programs and resources to support and enhance a family’s experience from a threatened pregnancy, hospital journey with a premature or sick newborn, the transition to home and beyond.
Australia is home to 23 state of the art intensive care units designed to meet the unique and critical needs of our earliest and sickest babies. Working with health professionals on the joint agenda of better outcomes for families, Miracle Babies provides informative education and insight on a family’s experience and funding for equipment, resources and research.
Baby Give Back believe that every baby deserves an equal start to life, a safe start. They work tirelessly to collect and safety check essential baby items for families who are referred via social service agencies. They are so committed to every baby having an equal start that they will buy essential baby items when demand is high. Right now, demand keeps growing month on month.
There is a joy that comes from picking out the perfect cot, the most comfortable pram, the perfect pair of teeny white socks. Sadly, for some new parents the reality they face is agonising over whether to buy nappies or food for their child as they simply can't afford both.
The idea for Baby Give Back was born when their founder Carly had completed her family and wished to pass on her gently-used baby goods and discovered this was not possible on the Gold Coast.
Taking inspiration from sister organisation St Kilda Mums, Baby Give Back is now in its third year of operation and has a busy warehouse at Varsity Lakes. They are incredibly proud to be associated and collaborate with 11 sister organisations across Australia who share our vision of providing for babies and children in vulnerable families.
Baby Give Back is now run by Carly as CEO with her sister Mindy as their Operations Manager. The sisters work in partnership to manage hundreds of dedicated volunteers and help hundreds of babies and children each month.
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