Connecting Cypriots across communities to honour the lives of friends and family who have passed

A new portal, Ourbeloved.cy was developed by a team of experts in state-of-the-art applications to help bereaved families and their relatives share funeral announcements and memorials in accordance with the rapidly evolving needs of the global online community.

For the bereaved family and relatives: The newly introduced web platform is a welcoming and user-friendly space which allows family and friends to easily upload funeral and memorial announcements for a small, competitive fee.

Further to this, it also provides clickable links to all social media channels and online tools available, thus enabling bereaved families to instantly share the notices with friends and relatives from near and afar, allowing them to be informed and be able to pay tribute.

End users can easily access useful service information related to after-life planning so they are less likely to miss a funeral announcement of a friend or relative. Personalised, immediate and efficient user-friendly ways to pay tribute and make donations at any time 24/7, at zero cost, are amidst the stand-out features of the platform.

As part of our mission to support NGOs, which are increasingly becoming more and more reliant on fundraising through online channels, ourbeloved.cy is supporting the collection of donations by featuring registered NGOs on the platform. Automated, safe and transparent donation payments to member NGOs allows friends and relatives to make a donation to the selected NGO in memory of a deceased person.

The Blog section features interesting articles and information related to the management of loss and to transforming grief and caregiving into expressions of community. Readers can look out for regular columnist experts who will be airing their views on an array of interesting topics related to the finitude of life.

Ourbeloved.cy aims to offer as much support as possible to people dealing with the end of life. This is why the platform has been designed to make the user feel like he or she is interacting with a trusted friend, who shares their grief and can navigate them smoothly and pleasantly through the difficult journey.

The Cyprus Mail, as part of its mission to be the voice of the region and the global Cypriot diaspora, shares the objectives of ourbeloved.cy in promoting community solidarity between Cypriots and will support ourbeloved.cy to facilitate this global community connectivity, while also helping promote the role and non-profit services of all the member NGOs registered on the platform.

Our hope is that future generations will be able to learn about the lives and stories of their family and community members who have passed and to bring local Cypriot and Cypriot diaspora communities together.