Our Story

When we decided to launch Elkan’s Light, people asked the same question in different ways: “Why go public with something so painful?” The answer is simple and impossible at the same time: because keeping quiet would mean accepting that what happened to our son is just “one of those things”. And it isn’t. This first blog post is our way of setting out, in one place, why this charity exists, who it is for, and what we are determined to change. Our son, Elkan On 1 September 2025