Jake's Gift is a not-for-profit organisation that was founded in 2009 by his mum Tracey Cahill.
Jake, a twin, lost his little life to Dilated Cardiomyopathy - a disease of the heart muscle - in February 2007 at just 52 days young.
Many months after the loss of Jake, Tracey felt the need to do something as a lasting legacy in his honour, provide awareness of Paediatric Cardiomyopathy and comfort to families who have endured a similar loss.
Jake's Gift provides families who sadly have lost a child in hospital with a Memory Keeper. A Memory Keeper is a unique storage container the family can keep special little items that they now hold so dear.
Currently, Memory Keeper's are provided free of charge to one hospital on the Sunshine Coast, with a vision of supplying more hospitals, nationwide in the near future.
Through fundraising Jake's Gift will endeavour to donate a twin crib to hospitals that lack the funding to purchase one. This is a lasting legacy to celebrate Jake's twinship with his sister Aylah.
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