Vision
Our vision is to be a beacon of hope, comfort and understanding for those coping with loss, ensuring that no one walks the path of grief alone. Through our carefully crafted bereavement care packages, we aspire to cultivate a community that embraces empathy, resilience, and the transformative power of compassionate care during life’s most delicate moments.
Our History
It was the death of a dear friend in 2016 that prompted me to start Letters of Hope. A Christ-centered bereavement ministry dedicated to helping others in their time of grief and loss.
Letters of Hope actually started as a book (with the same title) for tweens, it became a number 1 Amazon bestseller within weeks of being launched. (Letters of Hope: Encouragement For The Bereaved Child https://amzn.eu/d/1e2OVZf)
Letters of Hope later evolved to meet various demands of the bereaved community, providing a journal for all age groups, a resource hub, 1-2-1 grief support as well as group support and in recent times, gift service.
Our focus in recent years has been on providing care packages to the bereaved, as a way of showing them that someone cares and is thinking of them.
If you know someone going through an intense time, our self-care packages can be tailored specifically with their needs in mind, or you could treat yourself to some well-deserved self-care with a box of goodies to lift your mood.
About Our CEO
I am Ope Malomo and I am the founder of Letters of Hope.
My Dad died suddenly when I was 6 years old, within days of burying my grandfather. 5 years later, my mother also died unexpectedly after a brief illness and my universe completely changed from what I was familiar with. I was expected to carry on with life and didn’t really process my grief.
My personality changed very quickly in subsequent years and I simply just bottled my emotions.
These emotions of anger and resentment resurfaced in my adult years and I finally started the journey of healing in my late 20s.
(A colleague had recommended a T.V documentary on the Soham Murders of Jessica and Holly. At the end of that program, there was a call out for any one needing Bereavement support to contact Grief Encounter – a charity supporting the bereaved. I didn’t realise there was such a thing as ‘bereavement support’. I thought we were all supposed to accept loss as part of life and just carry on. I couldn’t contain my excitement and immediately reached out to the Charity, requesting to volunteer and support young bereaved children. I had to undergo training for this voluntary work and it was in the course of my training that my personal healing journey started. I have since volunteered for a number of Bereavement charities and organisations, sitting, walking and most importantly listening to the bereaved.)
My personal experiences over the deaths of my parents is the core reason why I’m so keen on providing good Bereavement care and signposting others to appropriate resources and support.
My desire is to be a Beacon of Hope to those who are walking a similar path I’ve walked on, to encourage the brokenhearted and support them through their bereavement journey.
“I am a Letter of Hope written by Christ, not with ink but by the Spirit of the Living God, not carved on stones but on tablets of tender hearts”.
Aside from the bereaved, the other mission of this ministry is to equip others in supporting their loved ones. A lot of people are generally uncomfortable with death,dying and terminal illness ( usually because of their own fears and unresolved feelings about a previous loss). Letters of Hope can help provide guidance on how best to support others.
Due to a high volume of bereavement care package requests, we need your help. Please be so kind to request one free package per family household. If requesting more than one package per family household, be kind to others by including a donation with your additional requests. If this is a difficulty, please consider asking a family member or friend if they would make a donation to sponsor your package(s). We deeply desire that our bereavement care packages would remain a free gift to the bereaved, but in order to do so we are seeking help to increase our base of donor support.
