NILMDTS offers the gift of healing, hope, and honor to parents experiencing the death of a baby through the overwhelming power of remembrance portraits. Professional-level photographers volunteer their time to conduct an intimate portrait session, capturing the only moments parents spend with their babies. Parents are gifted with delicately retouched heirloom black and white portraits free of charge.
These priceless images serve as an important step in the healing recovery for bereaved families. NILMDTS remembrance photography validates the existence and presence of these precious babies by honoring their legacy.
NILMDTS recruits, trains, and mobilizes professional quality photographers around the world. Through NILMDTS, medical personnel is given a meaningful option to offer bereaved parents by creating remembrance portraiture for their babies. Through further engagement in the organization, such as the NILMDTS Remembrance Walk and online support, families become a part of a compassionate and supportive community. Parents gain a sense of inclusiveness, alleviating the alienation and perception of being alone in their pregnancy or infant loss journey.
"The mission of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is to advance cures, and means of prevention, for pediatric catastrophic diseases through research and treatment. Consistent with the vision of our founder Danny Thomas, no child is denied treatment based on race, religion or a family's ability to pay."
St. Jude's is one of the premier research institutes today, and they provide cutting-edge treatment for children who are facing death every day of their lives. They also freely share the information that they learn so that doctors and scientists worldwide can use that knowledge to learn and to save even more children. In 1962 the survival rate for childhood cancer was twenty percent. Thanks to the work done by the dedicated team at Saint Judes that figure has escalated to as high as eighty percent.
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital subsists largely on donations from people such as you and me. Their operating costs, as you can imagine, are astronomical and as much as seventy-five percent of the one billion dollars it will take for 2018 will come from donors. This enables St. Jude's to focus on the children, and to be able to provide the research necessary to save lives, and to provide care. No family ever receives a bill from St. Jude because all a family should worry about is helping their child live.
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The founder, Danny Thomas, stated that "no child should die in the dawn of life".
For additional information regarding St. Jude Children's Research Hospital including their upcoming worldwide global initiative to reach all children in every part of the world, please see:
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) translates to Doctors without Borders. We provide medical assistance to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from healthcare. Our teams are made up of tens of thousands of health professionals, logistic and administrative staff - bound together by our charter. Our actions are guided by medical ethics and the principles of impartiality, independence, and neutrality. We are a non-profit, self-governed, member-based organization.
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) was founded in 1971 in France by a group of doctors and journalists in the wake of war and famine in Biafra, Nigeria. Their aim was to establish an independent organization that focuses on delivering emergency medical aid quickly, effectively and impartially.
Three hundred volunteers made up the organization when it was founded: doctors, nurses and other staff, including the 13 founding doctors and journalists.
MSF was created in the belief that all people should have access to healthcare regardless of gender, race, religion, creed or political affiliation, and that people’s medical needs outweigh respect for national boundaries.