STRONG WOMEN, STRONG BABIES!
Thank you to all our sponsors and donors for helping keep our Kiriwinan mothers and babies safe.
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Thank you from us…
Smiles all around at the distribution of donations by the VBA’s 1.1.2023.
Thanks to all our sponsors/donors, Australia post and the mammoth efforts of our in-country manager, our donations finally arrived on Kiriwina for distribution. Yay!
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Starting this new year with a photo of a new life. Kavataria CFK VBA delivered a healthy baby girl, born on 10 January 2023.
CFK has been busy over the holiday break, and we have big plans for 2023. We will be sure to keep you posted.
Thank you again to our fabulous sponsors and donors for making this life saving work possible.
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Thank you to our wonderful Kiriwinan’s and our sponsors and donors for allowing this good work to continue! xxx
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Answering the call out for help to supply any medical supplies possible, we have sent what we were permitted to send with the help of Pharmacy Select Balgowlah and our wonderful sponsors and donors.
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Due to shortage of basic drugs and other medical items the only health Centre on an Island of over 55,000 people, Losuia Health Centre, has closed to all but the most life threatening cases, it is currently closed for out patients.
Please donate or contact us if you have any supplies you wish to donate:
Photo of our CFK Australian Mid-wife training team & our PNG partners, the Losuia Health Care Centre team in the Oct 2018 training session.
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Buy one, or many before they run out. The gift that keeps on giving all year round and benefits not only the purchaser all year round but the Kiriwinans as well. A win win!!!
Only *$50.00 including delivery within Australia. (Additional charges for overseas delivery).
*Item does not include the xmas decorations or the Kiriwinan carved stool :).
#2023calendar, #caringforkiriwina, #charityxmasgift
Thanks to Postman Andy, another 150 birthing kits, donated prescription glasses and sunglasses have started their long journey to Kiriwina. Unfortunately, the lifesaving airstrip created by the ANZACs in WW2 has fallen into disrepair, only small charter planes can land and there is no other transport to this remote Island other than a two-day boat ride :0. Could the authorities please look into repairing this essential airstrip as an urgent priority!!!
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Another gorgeous photo of the CFK donated safe delivery of primary school readers, and lead and coloured pencils being recently delivered to Kavataria Elementary school students and teachers. Thank you again to all our wonderful sponsors and donors from the bottom of our hearts. 🙌
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This Remembrance Day we remember those ANZACs who served in partnership with the Kiriwinan people in WW2.
Thank you Diggers for building the Losuia airport strip, the most vital piece of infrastructure on Kiriwina, still in use today. Below image of diggers on Losuia airport strip during WW2.
Originally known as Armistice Day, Remembrance Day is observed on 11 November and marks the signing of the peace agreement between Germany and the Allies that ended the Great War of 1914-1918.
Featured image Kokoda Trail c/o the Australian War Memorial. Second World War Defining Moments, 1939–1945 | 2.4 What was the soldiers’ experience of the Kokoda Trail? | Australia’s Defining Moments Digital Classroom | National Museum of Australia (nma.gov.au)
2022 marks the 80th anniversary of the Kokoda Track campaign. Approximately 625 Australians were killed and more than 1,600 wounded in the four-month battle along the Kokoda Track in 1942.
As we mourn those who lost their lives during the war, we also mourn the recent tragic loss of life on Kiriwina with many innocent lives lost…
#caringforkiriwina #LestWeForget #RemembranceDay #mourning
Lest we forget.
Not forgotten nor forsaken
Are the lads no longer here;
I shall call-and you will waken
On this one day of the year
from Landing in the Dawn, John Sandes 1916
