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Our Big Goal for 2021 – a Mother&Baby Intensive Care Room

Our new project for 2021 is to sponsor a mother&baby private intensive care unit at the Emma Children’s hospital in Amsterdam. This will allow sick mothers and their prematurely born babies to share a room – rather than staying in two different parts of the hospital (as was the case with Birgit and Sophie). Due to the specialist medical equipment needed, these units are expensive.

To help raise the EUR 40,000 needed for one unit, we need your help. For more details on the “couplet units”, please click here.

Sophie Foundation celebrates 2nd year!

Thanks to your generous support and encouragement, the Sophie Foundation has been able to donate to specific projects to help prevent premature birth and support prematurely born babies, their families and caregivers.
It’s been an amazing two years – where we have raised over EUR 75,000 from app. 220 individual donors – and we look forward to continuing our work with your help.

To read the full newsletter, please click here … and read about our ambitious new project to raise EUR 80,000 for a Mother&Baby Private Intensive Care Unit at the Emma Children’s Hospital of the Amsterdam UMC.

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Huge congratulations to Stephen Dowling who today ran a marathon in memory of his son Nathan, and raised an amazing EUR 18,000, which he and his wife Barbara Snacken generously donated to the Sophie Foundation.

Last week, 600 cooling boxes for mother milk for prematurely born babies arrived at the NICU of the Amsterdam UMC.

Post on LinkedIn gets over 25,000 views and generates over EUR 15,000 in donations

Sophie Foundation turns 1 – please read our first newsletter here

Thanks to your generous donations, we were able to buy three comfortable lounge chairs and 35 sound- and light-reducing incubator covers for the NICU at the VUmc. All in beautiful Sophie Foundation blue.