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With the promise of vaccines and opening up of International flights on the horizon early 2021 we met up to start to plan for our next Village Birth Attendant Training trip to Kiriwina sometime in 2021, fingers crossed :). We have all missed our annual trip and are really looking forward to meeting up with our wonderful Kiriwinan Village Birth Attendants again. Merry Christmas from the VBA training team xx.

To help us make this training happen…

Please donate here

#Caringforkiriwina, #villagebirthattendanttraining, #mothersandbabies

The CFK Village Birth Attendant Training Team: Our brilliant Midwife educators, Shea Caplice (Second left) and Jacqui Andrews (right), Vanessa Palfreeman (left) and Jodi Lawton.

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2021 CFK Desk Calendar Now Available

$35.00 (including delivery within Australia)

Purchase one for yourself and several for your friends and family and delight them all this Christmas. This gift lasts all year round. All funds go directly to the Kiriwinan Village Birth Attendant Program and are 100% tax deductible. They come fully collated in a CD mini size desk calendar case.

“I look forward to purchasing this calendar every year for myself and my family, a very attractive, practical gift that benefits many”

Susan
Buy now

#2021calendar, #charitychristmaspresent, #caringforkiriwina, #charity, #xmas, #kiriwina, #papuanewguinea

Just look at those smiles. First photos back from our CFK In-country manager Toks latest CFK project progress reporting trip to Kiriwina.

Thank you again to all those fabulous knitters who donated to Sandy, initially having Africa, Nepal and Kiriwina in mind. Are knits are being well utilized. The Kiriwians and incredibly grateful!!!!

#babyknits, #seniorknitters,#caringforkiriwina.

Photos of the Happy Knitters and Norma (above) who at 98 years old still loves to knit.

“When I picked up the knitting they said it makes them feel so useful and gives them some purpose to get up and do something in their long days with few visitors during these lonely COVID times for the elderly I feel like we are “watering two plants with one hose”.

Sandy

You are all amazing and doing fantastic work. Thank you so much!!!

Sandy handing over the knitting 🙂

August 2020

e-NEWS School Fee Scholarship for Kiriwina

 

Kiriwina Secondary School Boarders in the girls boarding rooms.

 

Caring for Kiriwina has been helping the women and children on Kiriwina for many years. Even during the difficult conditions of Covid-19 pandemic, our in-country partners have continued to provide our support to the island. We continue to send birthing and dignity kits, and have recently sent safety posters, masks and sanitiser to the VBAs and the Losuia Health Centre to assist the health workers at this time. Beautiful hand knitted baby vests, and equipment for the Junior School have also made their way to the island recently as well as equipment and parts to repair the water pumps we maintain.

As our in-country training is not viable at this stage, we have developed a new initiative to provide scholarships for high school students on Kiriwina.  While schooling is free for all students in PNG, there is a cost for boarding at school on Kiriwina. There is only one high school on the island, and many students live in remote villages or outlying islands and so cannot attend daily from home. Kiriwina Secondary School provides a boarding facility for these kids to live at the school during term, and the cost for boarding must be paid by their families.  

Your donation of $125 can provide a year’s boarding for a student in need to attend high school and continue their studies. You will be supplied with a photo and profile of the student who receives the scholarship, and can communicate with them via CFK.

You can be assured that your full donation will be targeted to a particular student, who has been selected on the advice of both the Principal and Deputy Principals, to allow them to remain at school.

We appreciate the wonderful generosity of our supporters. As Australian Government funding has been put on hold during the pandemic, we rely solely on our donors to continue our work on Kiriwina.

Thankyou!

$125 scholarship donation  

Below our CFK School Fee recipients so far… Congratulations!        
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