Read all about: Water shortages causing the shutdown of Kiriwina’s main High School – x 5 water pumps to be installed – Kiriwina High School supplied with Dignity Kits – September Training trip preparations in full swing – June CFK VBA meeting, over 104 attendees.
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We will be sending up to five water pumps over to Kiriwina in the next couple of weeks to be installed in the villages that are most in need. These pumps are perfect for these conditions, originally designed in 1848, Gould’s heavy duty hand operated pump with open spout has a proven track record for reliability in these extreme working conditions.
Thank you to DFAT and the Friendship Grant and all our other sponsors and donors for allowing the life saving work to continue. Thank you!!!! @DFAT, @FriendshipGrants, #DFAT, #FriendshipGrants
Here is a SHOUT OUT to all Canberrans, The 2018 Midwinter Yarralumbla Arts and Crafts Show started TODAY! Friday 28th June, and goes all weekend. Wonderful arts and crafts and homemade cakes for sale. The Arts and Crafts show has generously supported Caring for Kiriwina since our inception in 2012. THANK YOU to all involved for your commitment and support!!!
For more information: https://www.facebook.com/midwinterartsandcrafts/?tn=HHH-R
Thanks to our wonderful sponsors and donors and packers Diana and Kylie Adams…Birthing Kits, Torches, re-usable menstrual pads…@DFAT, @FriendshipGrants, #DFAT, #FriendshipGrants.
Thank you Australian Women’s Weekly and journalist Melissa Field and also Miranda Herron for this gift of a wonderful article. Nestled between articles about Prince William and Dame Edna Everage, we feel extremely honoured and really appreciate your support! Please buy a copy and support CFK and AWW. A special thank you to Jodi’s mum Diana and sister Kylie Adams for their hundreds of hours packing the birthing kits, they sadly their tireless work did not get mentioned the article. Caring for Kiriwina is an Australian aid initiative implemented by Caring for Kiriwina on behalf of the Australian Government. @DFAT, @FriendshipGrant, #DFAT, # FriendshipGrant
Thanks to our fabulous donors, sponsors and volunteer packers, Diana and Kylie Adams, we have managed to deliver another x 150 birthing kits, and a further x 100 will be delivered on the weekend. We are working on another x 500 to be delivered by the end of next month. Our latest report from our In-country manager reveals an increase in births… (excerpt below) which means we need to increase our supply.
According to the VBA’s, at this time of the year, they have experienced increase number of pregnancies in the villages. The small villages have approximately 5 pregnancies per village and the bigger villages is about 10. The number of birthing kits supplied for each village is less than the number of pregnancies.
reported CFK In-country Manager Toks Bwaina
Photo below: CFK kit distribution to VBA’s 12th June 2019.
Empowering women – menstrual hygiene is an integral part of health. CFK is proud to help keep girls stay at school in Kiriwina through menstrual hygiene product distribution and education. Targeting the most at risk demographic in need of this hygiene product the Kiriwinan schools have come on board and are distributing the CFK re-usable menstrual pad kits to their students. Thank you to all our sponsors and donors for allowing this wonderful initiative to become a reality and help empower thousands of Kiriwinan girls.
CFK sent our in-country manager over to Kiriwina to personally deliver the donated items directly to the intended recipients.
Here are some photos of happy members of the CFK Health & Hygiene Committee with their newly donated torches meeting on the 8th June and a photo of the results of this clean village initiative.
“The torches will help them greatly in maintaining the cleanliness of the village. The other photo shows part of the village and how this committee has made great impacts and efforts to maintain the cleanness of the village.
Tok, CFK in-country Manager
Met with the 17 Committee Members of Health and Hygene of Kavataria Village on the evening of 7 June 2019. The cleanness of the village is maintained. Every morning the first thing people do is clean up the village before they go to the gardens or fishing. The committee also guard the beach front and shores making sure people use right places to relieve themselves. People dispose of rubbish at designated places and burned them up. With the presentation of torches as a donation from Caring for Kiriwina (CFK) will enable and equip the committee to be more effective in undertaking their tasks. Also met with them on the morning of June 8 and presented the torches to them. The committee expressed their gratitude and appreciation to CFK for the donation of torches.
Thanks to the wonderful generosity of our sponsors and donors we can afford to ramp up our efforts and are now sending boxes and boxes of these essential items to the mothers, women and girls of Kiriwina ready for their VBA meeting to be held in early June. We are so grateful for this opportunity to help! @DFAT, @FriendshipGrants, #DFAT, #FriendshipGrants.
Condition 190613:
The doctors can not do anymore. The bones can not join together and the flesh has grown in between the broken bones.
She is now on crutches and training herself to walk. She will be discharge from the hospital this Friday and fund her own way to Kiriwina.
CFK will assist Ruth to travel by plane to Kiriwina with her sister who accompany her to Alotau. Travelling by sea would be very difficult and inconvenience for Ruth.
She mention she still feels the pain from the legs, however, is trying her best cope. She will return in September to Alotau for review and if the leg does not improve, she will have her legs amputated.
Condition update 190527:
Toks contacted Ruth this morning and she informed him that the doctor on ward round this morning removed the plastic water bottles and elastic plaster from her leg due to swallon leg up to her knee. She will be informed for an x-ray sometimes this week. In the meantime she is on pain killer tablets awaiting for an x-ray.
Condition update 190524:
CFK’s in-country head spoke to Ruth yesterday and he reports that:
‘the plastic that was inserted into her leg was removed and nothing was inserted however only elastic plaster was tied around her leg. Two bottles tied to hold her legs or cause her bones to rejoin. She feels a bit better now than last week.’
Thanks to our sponsors and donors CFK has sent some funds to Ruth in Alotau to assist her. We have bought her a phone and balance of money will be used to assist her while in hospital.
‘She can sit up but not able to sit straight. The doctor that provided medical assistance to her is surgical doctors for bones and major cuts. His name is Dr James. She is given a month to stay in hospital for doctors to examine her before next cause of action is determined.’
reported Toks Bwaina
Below: Photos of Ruth in Hospital yesterday. Isn’t it wonderful when the internet connection is working.
