The Can
berra Sundowners, supported by a number of other Rotary clubs, local businesses and friends can proudly claim to have positively impacted the health outcomes for 3,000 mothers and babies through the purchase and packing of 3,000 birthing kits on 4th May. All up about 150 people gave a couple of hours of their time across the day to support this great initiative.
berra Sundowners, supported by a number of other Rotary clubs, local businesses and friends can proudly claim to have positively impacted the health outcomes for 3,000 mothers and babies through the purchase and packing of 3,000 birthing kits on 4th May. All up about 150 people gave a couple of hours of their time across the day to support this great initiative.Thousands of women and children around the world die or suffer significant medical issues in child birth in remote areas where medical facilities and practitioners are not readily available. Clean birthing kits give women in remote regions of countries where medical facilities are limited a chance to have a clean and safe birth. They stop infections and the deaths of mothers and babies from these infections, and the inclusion of gloves also restricts the spread of HIV and other STDs. The Birthing Kit Foundation Australia have supplied over 2.7 million clean birth kits to women in remote regions of over 30 countries and trained over 10,000 traditional birth attendants in these communities. Each birthing kit comprises a plastic sheet, a pair of gloves, soap, string and a razor blade, and costs $5. You can find out more here.
The 3,000 birthing kits cost $15,000, which was raised through a great trivia night and the financial support of the Rotary Clubs of Murrumbidgee Canberra, Woden Daybreak, Queanbeyan and Yass, our corporate sponsor Keane Consulting and friends of the club including the following businesses - The Coaching Alliance Group, Cyconsol and RCD Consulting. Thanks also to our partner Community Services #1 for the use of their Griffith Hall for the packing event.
