Name: Evening of Remembrance - Love Through Loss 2025
Start: 2025-10-11T17:00:00+04:00
End: 2025-10-11T19:15:00+04:00
Location: Nature Escapes

Evening of Remembrance - Love Through Loss 2025

Baby Loss Awareness Week runs from the 9th-15th of October every year, and during this tender week of remembrance, awareness, and connection, we hold a very special free Evening of Remembrance on Saturday 11th October, 5pm-7.15pm, for families in our community. The Nature Escapes at Al Barari offers a beautiful, peaceful setting where parents, families, and those who support the baby loss community in the UAE can come together with love, gentleness, and compassion - honouring every baby who was deeply loved but died during pregnancy, birth, or infancy.
Each year, we invite you to create a small but meaningful keepsake - a wooden star engraved with your baby's name, nickname, or a word that feels right for you. These can be collected at the Evening of Remembrance or sent to you if you are unable to attend, so that every family feels included wherever they are. The link to order your star can be found here:
https://www.lovethroughlosssupport.com/memory-making
This year, we will be planting a coconut tree in honour of all the families in the Love Through Loss community, in memory of your child, baby and loss. We will gather together at 5:30pm on Saturday 11th October to plant this tree before beginning our remembrance ceremony, readings and the gentle lighting of candles for a Wave of Light.
The coconut tree will be planted beside the olive tree and coconut tree we planted last year. The olive tree was planted in remembrance of the devastatingly high rates of baby loss in Palestine, standing as a symbol of peace, resilience, and connection to all families grieving across borders. Together, these trees create a dedicated place in the Nature Escapes gardens at Al Barari - a space we can return to year after year, knowing it holds the love and memory of all our babies.
If you would like to contribute towards the cost of the new coconut tree, you are warmly invited to choose an option from the link below that feels right for you. Any contributions beyond the tree itself will help nurture and enhance the beautiful Nature Escapes space, which has become such a meaningful sanctuary for our community.
https://www.lovethroughlosssupport.com/memory-making
Everyone is welcome to be part of the tree planting and to share in a moment of silence and reflection before we walk back to the main remembrance event. We will gather at the main stage at 5:30pm and walk together through the gardens to the planting place.
Though there will be some chairs and refreshments provided, you are welcome to bring a picnic rug and your own refreshments if you prefer. Siblings are warmly welcomed as part of the event, we recognise they have navigated loss too and we also recognise that this can stir many feelings in those who may not have a living child, we want you all to feel welcome, held and safe - there is always space to take a quiet walk or sit with your own thoughts in nature if you need time apart from the main gathering.
Mosquito repellent is advisable. Light refreshments will be provided. Free parking is available nearby.
The Evening of Remembrance will close with some readings and the lighting of candles at 7pm, a gentle and unifying moment where parents, families, friends and the professionals who walk alongside us can come together in remembrance of all babies who lit up our hearts and lives, however briefly we held their physical presence. If there is anything you would like to contribute within this, please feel
There is no need to RSVP. Please know that you are welcome, you are held and you are not alone. If you have any questions, we are always here for you.