Light up Aotearoa

 

This year for Baby Loss Awareness Week (9th-15th October) we are again lighting up landmarks across Aotearoa mawhero (pink), kikorangi (blue) and poroporo (purple) to remember our precious babies.

Below is a list of the confirmed landmarks. Thank you so much to the Councils, organisations, and businesses who are raising awareness of pregnancy and baby loss and acknowledging the whanau in their area who have suffered such a heart-breaking loss.

 

Ashburton

Ashburton Clock Tower: 9-15 October

Auckland

Eden Park: 15 October

NZ Maritime Museum Hui Te Ananui a Tangaroa KZ 1: 9, 10 & 15 October

Holy Trinity Cathedral: 15 October

Aotea Centre: 15 October

Trevor Moss Davis Memorial Fountain (Mission Bay): 9-15 October

Blenheim

Blenheim Clock Tower: 9-15 October

Christchurch

Christchurch Airport Terminal & Sign: 9-15 October

One NZ Stadium: 15 October

Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu: 9-15 October

Cromwell

Cromwell Welcome Sign: 15 October

Dunedin

Tuhura Otago Museum: 9-15 October

St Paul's Cathedral: 15 October

Toitu Otago Settlers Museum: 15 October

Feilding

Fielding Clock Tower: 15 October

Foxton

Foxton Clock Tower: 9-15 October

Gisborne

Gisborne Clock Tower: 10-15 October

Hamilton

Victoria Bridge: 9-15 October

Hawera

Hawera Water Tower: 15 October

Matamata

Matamata Town Clock: 9-15 October

Nelson

Nelson Clock Tower: 9-15 October

Nelson Cathedral: 9-15 October

Top of Trafalgar: 9-15 October

New Plymouth

New Plymouth Clock Tower: 9-15 October

Oamaru

Opera House: 9-15 October

Palmerston North

Hopwood Clock Tower: 15 October

Taupo

Great Lakes Centre: 9-15 October

Tauranga

Wharf Street Lights: 15 October

Tunks Reserve: 15 October

Masonic Park: 15 October

Beacon Wharf: 15 October

Waterfront Playground: 15 October

The Waterfront - Park North: 15 October

Te Aroha

Te Aroha Clock Tower: 15 October

Upper Hutt

Fantail Welcome Sculpture: 15 October

Dunlops Chimney: 9-15 October

Wellington

Cable Car Tunnels: 15 October

Michael Fowler Centre: 15 October

Carter Fountain: 9-15 October

Queen Wharf Sails: 9-15 October

Westport

Westport Clock Tower: 15 October

Whanganui

Royal Whanganui Opera House: 9 October

Whanganui War Memorial: 9 October

Whangarei

Victoria Canopy Bridge: 9-15 October

Laurie Hall Park: 9-15 October

Cameron Street Canopy: 9-15 October

Click on this link to find the details of each landmark

 

Global Wave of Light

 

Baby Loss Awareness week takes places from 9th to 15th October. Many of our amazing Sands groups across Aotearoa are planning events and opportunities for remembrance during this special week. This week culminates in the Global Wave of Light, an international event held on 15th October, International Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day. On this day, bereaved parents, whanau, friends and communities around the world light a candle at 7pm in memory of their precious baby or babies.

As one of the first countries in the world to mark this moment, Aotearoa helps start a continuous wave of light and aroha that travels around the world, honouring and remembering babies who are deeply loved and dearly missed. Sands NZ will be hosting an online rememberance service. If you would like us to light a candle and say your babies name during the service, please complete the google form at this link: https://forms.gle/brPq1dtr6yKhbdVU7

Please submit names by 13th October. A link to the online service will be shared on the 15th of October. A heartfelt thanks to Sands Canterbury and Canterbury Memorial Gardens and Crematorium for helping make this special event possible.

Many thanks to Sands Canterbury and Canterbury Memorial Garden and Crematorium for putting this together.