Year: 2015

Thank you so much to those of you who were able to support us by joining us at The Dressmaker Movie Night on Thursday. We raised some money, had a good time, and saw a really excellent Australian movie.

Our next event is the Estee Lauder Shopping event, on the 12th of December. Tickets are available NOW at goo.gl/cp9lME for $10. The ticket will get you entry to the store, where brands including Estee Lauder, MAC, Bobby Brown, Clinique and more are available at significant discount. Some items are half their store retail price!

So come along and get a great deal – stock up on your own products, as well as get your Christmas presents sorted!

As always, the proceeds go towards supporting our worthy service projects including the Queensland Women’s Legal Service, and the Australian Cervical Cancer Foundation.

Thanks again for your amazing and generous support, and we look forward to seeing you in December!

The 2015 Birthing Kits day is well underway, and if you haven’t already, please have a look at our event page and consider signing up to volunteer, or contributing financially to the project.

We’re very excited for this year’s event – it is the 10th year the Zonta Club of Brisbane Breakfast has hosted the event, and we are aiming to put together a record 15,000 kits in one morning. We would love your support – even if you just spread the word, we’d be so grateful.

We know it will be an amazing day, as it is every year, and look forward to seeing as many of you there as possible to help put together these life-saving kits.

For the past few years, we have participated in selling Entertainment Books as a way of raising some funds for our service projects and Zonta International. It is that time of year again!

Zonta receive $13 from every book or app sold – so please feel free to share this link with as many people as possible, and help our causes, as well as getting some great deals for the next 12 months.

As many of you know, the Zonta Brisbane Breakfast Club have been managing a Zonta birthing kit project since 2006.

A member of our club, Judi Hutchison, has recently returned from villages within the Western Province of Papua New Guinea where she and a nine member medical team supported by Talisman Niugini Ltd who has been a premium sponsor of the Zonta birthing kit project for the last 3 years, delivered health education and training, relationship building plus supplied Zonta birthing kits.

She shared her story about flying to the ‘wild west’ via Kiunga and then choppered over the dense jungles to two remote villages of Dahoma and Deberebip, without ready access to a hospital which was over a day away in a motorised canoe.

Most in the village had not seen a white person before. She was called a white meri (white woman) so there was a lot of staring and smiling as they became used to her presence.

She learned the Western Province handshake which was a great way to connect with the community. Dogs, cats, chickens and piglets wandered around the village.

Training, held under the house for coolness, involved both general and reproductive health.

She told the story of the Zonta birthing kit assembly days in Brisbane and with the medical team, an explanation of the use and disposal of the components (including trying on gloves) and presented kits to the village Community Health Worker plus to the women, a very special moment for Judi. Her language was translated to pidgin and then to their local language.

Reproductive health is normally a taboo subject! For birthing, the women normally walk into the jungle, which is very inhospitable ensuring not near hunting grounds or the village, as they believe it creates bad spirits. After the birth the women return to the village when all cleaned up i.e. the baby and her!

Talisman gave Judi the opportunity to meet the women who benefit from using birthing kits. It was clear there is a need for education and a hygienic approach to childbirth. There is even a baby in a Western Province village called Talisman, where a woman had used the Zonta birthing kit!

Join us for the hilarious sequel to The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel: The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel on Tuesday the 3rd of March at the Barracks Cinemas.

To book, visit our TryBooking Event Page.