Check out our latest CFK August e-news
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- August 29, 2018
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Over 1,900 Birthing Kits delivered to Kiriwina in the last financial year!
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- August 28, 2018
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Costco trolley load of torches winging their way to the VBA’s
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- August 20, 2018
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Let there be light for our many VBA’s. Babies will not confine themselves to daylight deliveries, more’s the pity.
Thank you again to our wonderful Sponsors and Donors.
The Caring for Kiriwina Team
FINALLY, tickets booked for October 2018 training trip!
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- August 14, 2018
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Yeah!!! Thanks to all our donors and supporters and the wonderful welded-on (thank goodness!) support of our Volunteer midwives, Shea Caplice and Jacqui Andrews (not pictured but there in spirit) and sole mate Vanessa Palfreeman our airplane tickets are booked and we are on our way!!! Dates October 21st for one week of VBA training. Huge logistical challenge with the training set-up and coordination well advanced. Thank you to everyone involved in this demanding, yet thoroughly rewarding, lifesaving initiative. To donate please CLICK HERE
Caring for Kiriwina would like to say a big thank you to a valiant couple of P&O passengers, Helen and Randall Wilson who, despite the usual hurdles thrown at them by Customs and Port officers managed to deliver two bags of birthing kits as well as torches, ear droppers and women’s underwear to the head of the VBA’s on Kiriwina Ruth Boaz and her husband (Pictured in the photo below).
Helen has generously reported on her journey, final paragraph of report below:
“The two bags have reached their new home and we trust that the women who use them from across each of the villages on this beautiful island will recall the love of the Lawton family whose links continue through the United Church.”
and of course the wonderful couple who delivered the items.
You can view the entire report at this link CLICK HERE.
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- August 13, 2018
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Another x100 Birthing Kits and other supplies for the VBA’s on their way
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- August 7, 2018
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Thanks to our wonderful donors and packers we are also sending other items with this lot of birthing kits such as uniforms, underpants, torches, suction syringes and other necessary items. Also, Toks has made it to Kiriwina, yeah!
Donated items hand over
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- July 30, 2018
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Our in-country manager has been delayed in Alotau as the boat he was meant to be traveling on was not ready to leave. He is taking donated sporting gear for the local schools and Birthing Kits for the Losuia Health Centre. He is also meeting with the head VBA’s to inform them of the next training sessions progress, delivering the remaining birthing kits for distribution to all VBA’s on Kiriwina. Hopefully the boat will be ready to leave Alotau tomorrow.
Thank you to everyone who has enabled us to make this happen.
The Caring for Kiriwina Team.
And another x 100 Birthing Kits winging their way to Kiriwina…
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- July 18, 2018
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Thanks to our wonderful donors and packers.
New timing re: next VBA on Island training being worked out now, we will keep you posted re: timing.
The Caring For Kiriwina Team
Another x 150 birthing kits on their way to Kiriwina
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- July 13, 2018
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A massive thank you to our wonderful volunteer packing Teams from Sydney and the ACT for getting these essential birthing kits together. Fabulous team effort from our teams at Beyond Q Bookshop and Cafe Weston Creek ACT and our wonderful Sydney packers Diana and Kylie Adams. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank a kind couple making the trip to Kiriwina who have volunteered their services to deliver the kits to our CFK VBA’s. Great team effort, thank you all involved.
Well done our fabulous CFK midwife Shea – article Sydney Morning Herald by Esther Han 2 June 2018
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- July 11, 2018
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