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What a fabulous initiative St. Vincent’s Day is at St Vincent’s College Potts Point.

Caring For Kiriwina has been the beneficiary of the College’s Social Justice initiatives for the past few years and thankfully the College have continued to support our work by organising the purchasing of the Birthing Kit materials, packaging the kits and sending them onto our representatives in PNG.

This year we were honored to be invited to talk to the girls about our work in the Trobriands. Thankfully our team member Vanessa Palfreeman made herself available yesterday to help communicate the realities of our operation to the students.

Our immense gratitude goes to teachers Sue Thomas and Simone Lock, Head of De Lacy House and De Lacy House for continuing to support this vital work.

Kamatokisi the Caring for Kiriwina Team

Thank you!

The Children’s Help Fund for your continuing to be a major Sponsor of Caring for Kiriwina and helping is make out August 2018 Village Birth Attendant Training Trip a reality.

The newspaper article goes on to say that “We have 733 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births, which is like 1,500 to 2,000 women dying every year.”

The team at CFK are continuing to work towards traveling to Kiriwina for the third week of June this year despite the heightened level of difficulty, the airport is still closed and due to landholder disputes there seems to be no sign of it being reopened any time soon. The VBA’s have told us that they feel isolated and desperate and we will try and make sure we fulfill the commitments we have made to them, even if we end up being a bit delayed. There are now additional costs involved in traveling to the Island. All donations welcome. Please Donate CLICK HERE  or visit our DONATION SHOP.

 

Yeah! Shea to the rescue! See new embedded video of our joyous final celebrations before coming back to Australia. This video shows the Kiriwian people celebrating our time with them and shows the love and joy experienced by all. Thank you all for an amazing 2017, we feel it is a huge honor to be able to work with the beautiful Kiriwan people in this way and we are all looking forward to continuing this beautiful, blessed relationship in 2018 and beyond. Thank you for the beautiful video and photos Shea Caplice.

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We are constantly reflecting on our practices to make sure we alleviate problems on the Islands and do not add to them. We include as many biodegradable products as humanly possible into our Birthing Kits and the NEW Chux Biodegradable Cleaning Superwipes adds to our ability to include yet another environmentally friendly item. Thank you Chux.