Thank you to our wonderful! donors and Sydney volunteer packers Diana and Kylie Adams. Your support is essential for our work to continue. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts. The Caring for Kiriwina Team.
Although the airport is still closed atm we are being told that it will open in July. We are continuing to plan the 2018 VBA training trip whilst still managing to ship uniforms and Birthing Kits to Losuia from Alotau . We will keep you posted re: VBA training trip timing. Go all members of team CFK.
The Stamp Committee donation has gone into the creation of birthing kits and to pay for the increased delivery costs caused by the airport closure. We have also used this money to top-up the VBA CFK emergency mobile phones and to help us save towards our next VBA training trip this year. Despite the Airport still being closed we are still managing to provide for our wonderful Kiriwinan VBA’s.
We are determined to provide the next training workshop in the series in 2018. Logistically, due to transport issues, we are still determining the best timing for such a trip.
The wonderful! Vanessa and Shea at our latest Caring for Kiriwina coordination meeting.
Our heart felt thanks goes to recent Pacific Aria cruise passengers Catherine Gardiner and her husband who volunteered to deliver bags of Birthing Kits to our head VBA on Kiriwina, see below Catherine’s lovely delivery confirmation message:
“We successfully delivered the birthing kits to Ruth. She was a lovely lady. We met her daughters and grand daughter. Ruth also gave me a hand made bag with my name woven into it. It is such a basic island as was Kitava Island. We saw some of your birthing kits on Kitava when we visited so they definitely make it across. I wished I had taken so much more to these lovely little islands. Am so glad we were able to help the wonderful work you do. Please let me know if there is any other way to stay connected.”
Calling all Cruise Ship Passengers going to Kiriwina please CLICK HERE to donate your CFK Birthing Kit delivery services. With the airport still closed your help is essential.
Thank you
The CFK Team
Thank you to the team at Beyond Q: Jenni Lawton and Simon Maddox, Linda Douglas at Chefs Kitchen and Mary Jonmundsson for making the Cooking Fun-raiser such as success. The money raised from ticket sales has gone directly into the CFK bank account and purchased Birthing Kit contents for our now active Canberra Beyond Q birthing kit assembly group to be initiated. We have many VBA’s on Kiriwina and the outer Islands to supply and this has necessitated an expansion of our assembly teams, we are now based in Sydney and Canberra. Anyone interested in joining the Canberra working group please contact Jenni on 0421 526 344. Thank you also to all the supporters that came to the event and purchased cooking equipment from Chef’s Kitchen. 20% of the total purchase price will be sent to our Charity and Chefs Kitchen will supply some of their high quality kitchen equipment for us to raffle off in the near future. Keep an eye out for more updates.
As the airport is still closed we are so thankful to these Pacific Aria passengers for contacting us and offering to transport anything we required to Kiriwina. We have managed to pack and send another 80 Birthing Kits. Thanks again to the sterling efforts of Diana and Kylie Adams for rising to the challenge and getting these Birthing Kits packed and ready in the nick of time.
Come and Join Us for a fun evening learning how to cook and helping the people of Kiriwina in the process.
All proceeds from ticket sales go to our wonderful Charity.
Held at Beyond Q Books new premises:
Weston Arcade, 11 Brierly Street Weston ACT 2611
You might pick up a book or two while you are there.
Tickets $15 and can be purchased from our shop CLICK HERE.
Or ring Jenni on 0421 526 344 and purchase a ticket today.
There will be raffles and lots to win.
Love to see you all there!!!
With the help of our wonderful mid wife Shea Caplice and the Lawton clansmen we have created a photographic desktop calendar that will be posted to anyone who donates over $50. Please donate this Christmas.
Proceed to this link CLICK HERE
Yeah! Shea to the rescue! See new embedded video of our joyous final celebrations before coming back to Australia. This video shows the Kiriwian people celebrating our time with them and shows the love and joy experienced by all. Thank you all for an amazing 2017, we feel it is a huge honor to be able to work with the beautiful Kiriwan people in this way and we are all looking forward to continuing this beautiful, blessed relationship in 2018 and beyond. Thank you for the beautiful video and photos Shea Caplice.
