Alexander’s Wish

16/10/2026

Our forest is growing! Be part of the impact!

https://alexanderswish.co.za/great-forest-project/

13/10/2026

Every indigenous tree planted is a step towards restoring our natural ecosystems, protecting biodiversity, and creating a greener, healthier planet for future generations. 🌳💚

A tree is the perfect gift!

https://alexanderswish.co.za/great-forest-project/

07/10/2026

Through Alexander’s Wish, we hope to carry his kindness forward by helping other children and families facing childhood cancer. You helped us do that for Alba the Brave. 💛

To our wonderful community; bakers, volunteers, sponsors and everyone who came along, bought cake or helped spread the word THANK YOU. Every cake donated, every slice bought and every helping hand contributed to this gift!

We look forward to bringing you the Spring Cake Fair again next year!

30/09/2026

As we come to the end of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, I want to acknowledge that the battle doesn’t end because the month does.

For families still fighting, tomorrow the fight continues. The treatments, the hospital visits, the scans, the fear and uncertainty don’t disappear when September ends.

And for those of us who have lost a child to cancer, neither does the hurt.

We are learning to navigate this broken world without Alexander in it. And although Alexander has passed away, I still believe his story is one of HOPE.

Not because we got the ending we prayed for.

We didn’t.

But because his life was so much bigger than the cancer that took him.

He was a boy who fought courageously.
A family fought beside him.
A community wrapped themselves around him.
And a piece of this world changed because they knew him, loved him, or simply knew of him.

When your child faces a mountain, watching them climb it is one of the hardest things imaginable. You would give anything to carry it for them. To take the pain, the fear, the unfairness. But you can’t.

So you climb beside them.

And sometimes, despite every prayer, every treatment, every bit of hope and every bit of fight, the mountain does not end where you desperately wanted it to.

Sometimes you can’t climb beside them anymore.

And then somehow, you have to keep walking without them.

That is childhood cancer too.

It is not only the brave photos, the gold ribbons and the ringing of bells. ❤️‍🩹

So September can end.

But I will not stop talking about childhood cancer.

I will not stop saying Alexander’s name.

I will not stop fighting for the children who are still climbing their mountains.

And I will not allow cancer to have the final word in Alexander’s story.

Because cancer took his life.

But it did not take what he left behind.

Alexander left something behind.

He left courage in people who watched him fight.
He left kindness in people who came together for him.
He left a family determined to keep saying his name.
And he left us with a reason to keep doing good in this world.

Alexander was here.

He mattered.

He changed us.

And as long as we are here, we will make sure that something good continues to grow from a life we would have given anything to keep. 🎗️💛

24/09/2026

🌳 Only a few days left of Arbour Month! 🌳

Don’t miss your chance to DOUBLE your impact this month!

Buy ONE tree and get ONE tree FREE! 🌱🌱

That means twice the trees, twice the impact, and another step closer to growing Alexander’s Forest. 💚

Buy one. Get one free. 🌳

https://alexanderswish.co.za/great-forest-project/

20/09/2026

4 months without you.

It’s an indescribable feeling.
To hold onto you, while learning to live without you.

We are in Namibia. The same family holiday we did before, one of your favourite holidays. Now I’m showing your dad, Avia and Arthur where your footprints lay. Following them. Looking for pieces of you in the places you once loved.

Sitting around the campfire, all your cousins laughing and talking… my heart aches thinking about how it would have been with you here. Healthy. Sitting with us.

What would you be chatting about?
Would you still take part in the bug hunts?
Would you be pointing out the planets in the night-filled sky to them?

Of course you would.

And that makes it harder.

You would have LOVED it.

Taking our first family photo standing in the Fish River without you was hard. We, more than most, understand the importance of capturing memories. But for a moment there, my heart broke all over again.

Another reminder that you are not here.

But also reminders that you were.

And that is what we are holding onto.

I’m currently lying in the same bed you did a year ago. Looking through the same window you looked through.

You were here.

You are here.

In the thunderstorms that are following us.

In the new memories we make, carrying you in our hearts.

You will always be a part of us.

14/09/2026

Thank you to each and every baker who made this day possible! The Spring Cake Fair

12/09/2026

That’s a wrap for the 2026 The Spring Cake Fair! 🌸🍰

Thank you to each and every baker for your incredible generosity, time and care. What an amazing community we are privileged to be part of!

And to the wonderful team who made this day possible THANK YOU! Without each of you, none of this would be possible.

Our hearts are full. 💛

Until next year! 🌸🍰