Tropical Rain
Sydney’s rain today reminds me of….
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- June 7, 2017
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SEE OUR LATEST E-NEWS
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- May 23, 2017
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Happy Mother’s Day!
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- May 14, 2017
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To all our Kiriwinan Mother’s, our Caring for Kiriwina partners and donors, our heart felt gratitude for your love and devotion.
Have a very Happy Mother’s Day!
Well, no turning back now…
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- April 21, 2017
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One more sleep and we are off! Just a reminder that the months of planning and volunteered time, effort and money will all be worth it!
Four more sleeps!
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- April 17, 2017
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We leave in Four more days! Thanks to our donors incredible generosity we fly to PNG for the VHV Training trip in four days time on April 22nd.
Final logistics are being planned. Everything has been organised, training equipment, scheduling, food, transport etc.
It is all becoming very exciting and real!!!
Thank you Finola for your support and these lovely sentiments
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- April 2, 2017
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Thank you for making our Afternoon Tea such a success!
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- April 2, 2017
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So excited about the Afternoon Tea for VHV event tomorrow starting at 2.30pm!
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- April 1, 2017
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Remember our fundraiser is starting at 2.30pm tomorrow until 5pm.
Sydney Secondary College,
Blackwattle Bay Campus
(Taylor Street entrance, near corner of Bridge Road)
We are all very excited and looking forward to seeing you there!!!
Another x 50 Birthing Kits on their way…
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- March 18, 2017
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Another x 50 birthing kits are on their way to Kiriwina. Thank you to all our wonderful supporters and donors and to Diana and Kylie Adams for their expert collating and packaging skills.
Thank you also to our friendly local Post Office staff.
Safe journey!
This is latest report received from Kiriwina.
The boxes of birthing kits sent home in the last three months, they have been distributed one box of birthing kits to the following circuits, except Kuboma circuit:
Kaileuna – 1 box
Kilivila – 1 box
Kitava – 1 box
Luba – 1 box
So far only two boxes of birthing kits are left.
In respect to the Birthing Home Centre, the church is deciding on the piece of land requested.
Regards
Toks
We have made it into the Manly Daily
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- February 27, 2017
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Thank you journalist Ali Lowe and photographer Phillip Rogers for your wonderful Manly Daily article supporting our training program.
CARE is the keyword for a local who has organised an educational trip to Kiriwina in Papua New Guinea.
Mother-of-two Jodi Lawton, along with Balgowlah midwife Shea Caplice and three others, will head to the small island in a bid to educate villagers about basic and emergency skills needed in childbirth.
In rural Papua New Guinea the mortality rate in childbirth is one in seven, with a maternal mortality rate of three in 1,000 live births.
Mrs Lawton’s Caring for Kiriwina project will bring together 100 women who assist in local births — essentially as untrained midwives — and inform them using fake pelvises and dolls.
Women will be given kits comprising items such as scalpel, pad, wipe and birth certificate, translated in to the local dialect by Mrs Lawton’s father-in-law Ralph.
The women will provide educational talks and distribute birthing kits. Picture: Philip Rogers
“My husband Doug’s family were missionaries in Kiriwina and had their children there. Their whole lives have focused around the island and its people and Ralph’s wife Margaret started helping these untrained midwives. I couldn’t abide the thought of their work falling by the wayside,” Mrs Lawton, 50, said.
Mrs Lawton added a brush with breast cancer herself made her want to help.
“You face death and you think, ‘What am I here for?’ Cancer made me realise there is more to life and that I needed to give back. I feel like it’s my calling.”
Mrs Lawton and her Kiriwina crew — including Ralph and Margaret’s daughter Jenni, who was born on the island, midwife Jacqui Andrews and support representative Vanessa Palfreeman, will leave for the island on April 22.