Charity Halloween Ball - Dublin (Irish Premature Babies)
“What if the first day of your life was the toughest day of your life?”
Over 4,500 babies are born premature in Ireland each year. Irish Premature Babies was set up by parents of premature children in 2010 and achieved charity status at the beginning of this year.
Irish Premature Babies wish to help all the Neo Natal Intensive Care Units and Special Care Units in the Republic Of Ireland. All the Neo-Natal Intensive Care Units and Special Care Baby Units around Ireland that look after all the premature and ill babies around Ireland are in desperate need for more life saving equipment.
The money raised by the charity will go to buying equipment that the units need and not into a hospital which will never get accounted for, at the moment our aim is to raise money to provide a new incubator & other life saving equipment for all the units, each incubator costs around 23,000e approx. The other aim of the charity is to provide support for families of prem babies through support emotionally with a buddy system and hopefully be able to provide emergency accommodation for parents whose critically ill babies have been moved to Dublin.
Now that Ireland finally has a charity dedicated to helping parent’s, families and units across the country we hope to be able to help our hospitals and increase awareness of the wonderful work they do saving thousands of babies every year.
We have a very extensive website: www.irishprematurebabies.com & can also be found on face book and twitter. Please have a look at this as it gives a breakdown of all our aims and gives real experiences of the health care when you have a precious little life at stake.
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