Our last CFK VBA planning meeting before we leave in one weeks time. That’s right… can you believe it…only 7 sleeps and then we are Kiriwina bound.
Thank you everyone for making this third training trip a reality, including our volunteers, donors and sponsors as well as our incredible support from DFAT and the Friendships Grant. @DFAT, @FriendshipGrants, @AustraliaAid, #DFAT, #FriendshipGrants, #AustraliaAid.
Thank you again UNSW for this amazingly generous initiative. Birthing Kits on way!
Kiriwina High School girls water pump is now in use. Opened by our united church Chaplain Rev. Aaron Abraham in the presence of Board members and school admin staff… Thanks to CFK, Australia Aid @DFAT, #DFAT, #Friendshipgrants, @Friendshipgrants.
Photo of dignitaries present at the opening pictured below:
Thank you all for your support!.
Thank you to UNSW for organising a mass pack of Birthing and Dignity Kits with 100’s completed. The timing is perfect as we can now take them with us on our 19th September Training Trip. Thank you to Dr Sophia, Dr Holly, Kate and all the volunteer packers. You have helped save the lives of Kiriwinan mothers and babies. @UNSW Medicine, @UNSW, @CaringforKiriwina.
Sadly Ruben, a Kiriwina High School Year 9 student’s father passed away when he was young and his mother is blind and disabled and cannot afford to pay the school fees.
Thanks to Katharina’s generous $100 donation he is now able to complete year 9.
Thank you so much Katharina! Your donation will go a long way to help.
Please help us help more desperate students trying to keep attending school, or to help Ruben Ruben continue his years 10 to 12 education Please Donate at: CLICK HERE
Are you interested in public health as a career? Come and join us at the UNSW open day stall, Saturday 7th September 2019, 9am to 4pm, Anzac parade walk. UNSW School of Public Health and Community Medicine (SPHCM)are supporting Caring for Kiriwina by donating the material and organising a mass packing session for the birthing kits and dignity kits. What a wonderful life saving initiative!!! Thank you so much to the team at UNSW’s SPHCM. Just brilliant! For more information go to openday.unsw.edu.au. @unswmedicine, @unsw, #unsw, #unswmedicine, #CaringforKiriwina.
Thanks to all of our sponsors and donors and volunteer packers Diana and Kylie Adams and Lila Lawton another 100 kits are on their way. Australian Aid at work @DFAT, @FriendshipGrant, #DFAT, #FriendshipGrant.
CFK received many letters of thanks from the Kiriwina High School Girls, a sample is shown below. Thank you to our volunteers, sponsors and donors and @DFAT, @FriendshipGrants, #DFAT, #FriendshipGrants for enabling us to continue this empowering work.
Thanks to the wonderful generosity of our volunteers, sponsors and donors and Australia Aid Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, #DFAT, @FriendshipGrants, #FriendshipGrants
The first well dug at Kiriwina High School has reached the water level. Hopefully pump installation will commence this week.
