CFK Village Birth Attendant training team strategy meeting. With the wonderful Vanessa Palfreeman (Co-director VBA training) and magnificent Shea Caplice (VBA training mid-wife).
“As women thrive, so will we all,” United Nations Secretary
-General Ban Ki-moon
“The world will never realise 100 per cent of its goals if 50 per cent of its people cannot realise their full potential,” General Ban Ki-moon told the UN Commission. While women bore the burden of conflict, war, discrimination and domestic violence, they were not just victims, but agents of progress. Empowered women and girls were the best drivers of growth, the best hope for reconciliation and the best buffer against radicalisation of youth and the repetition of the cycle of violence, he stressed.
Today is a day for celebrating women. Supporting women and what they can achieve is more important than ever. Please support our Caring for Kiriwina Village Birth Attendants Program to create Strong women = Strong babies.
“Here’s to strong women: May we know them. May we be them. May we raise them.”
– Unknown
We are extremely honoured to be invited by the Bishop to an event celebrating Ralph and Margaret Lawton’s work with the Kiriwinan people scheduled for the last two weeks of April.
And after three long years, we will also take this opportunity to meet up with our wonderful CFK in-country and Island volunteers, our fabulous VBAs and the Losuia Health Centre to check on the progress of all our projects on the Island and to deliver much-needed support. Please be sure to look out for further updates.
Thank you to all our donors and sponsors for allowing this life-saving work to continue🙌.
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Thank you so much to all our sponsors and donors who made this food security donation possible; this donation has helped avert a humanitarian crisis on Kiriwina that the recent conflict has generated.
Photos of basic food staples such as rice, sugar, tinned food, noodles, teabags, flour, and cooking oil distributed to Kavataria, Mulosaida and Oyabia/Rabesi communities.
Further distributions of rice and sugar have been delivered to Losuia, Kwemtula and Osesuya communities.
A thousand thanks to all who contributed !!! 👏👏👏👏😍
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A call out for life-saving medical equipment such as baby weighing scales, blood sugar and blood pressure measuring equipment has been answered—more on their way. Thanks to the incredible generosity of our wonderful sponsors and donors 👏.
Anyone with this type of equipment that they would like to donate please contact us at: donations@caringforkiriwina.org.au
STRONG WOMEN, STRONG BABIES!
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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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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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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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