Wrap up of Birthing Kits Assembly Day 2018
A big thank you to all those who attended our Birthing Kit Assembly Days this year. We are delighted to say that we successfully packed 10,000 kits that will now head to Papua New Guinea, Nigeria, DR Congo and Uganda.
Check out our video of the excitement of the day!
Birthing Kits 2019
Please keep Wednesday 14th August (EKKA day) and/or Saturday 17th August 2019 free for next year’s event.
We’re Internationally Famous! Birthing Kits 2016
Check out this post on Zonta International’s page about our annual Birthing Kit project! http://www.zonta.org/Local-Action/Local-Service-Advocacy/Detail/exciting-growth-for-popular-birthing-kit-project
The Birthing Kit project is one of our favourite days of each year, and we truly appreciate everyone who supports us in this endeavor.
If you’re interested in joining us next year, keep in touch – we’re on Facebook, Twitter, Email and in person!
2016 Zonta Birthing Kit Project
Registrations for the 2016 Zonta Birthing Kit Project are now open!
This year we are aiming to assemble 12,000 kits vital to the women in regional areas of Papua New Guinea and other developing countries. Each year we are lucky enough to have friends, family, community and corporate groups help pack birthing kits for third world countries. It is a fantastic day full of fun, laughter and new friends.
Do you remember our previous events? Watch the video!
Read more about this year’s event on the official website.
How can you help?
- Register NOW to volunteer to assist us to assemble the 12,000 birthing kits
- Donate NOW to this great cause
- Buy your raffle tickets ahead of time
The more the merrier so why not get a group of friends or colleagues together and make it a fun social event! Further event details, such as assembling instructions, public transport or details on our Birthing Kit Preparation morning which is held on EKKA day, will be forwarded closer to the date.
The success of this special day is driven by the regular support and sponsorship of so many friends, Zontians and the Brisbane community. You can help make a difference. We look forward to seeing you all again and welcoming new volunteers to this special event.
Birthing Kits 2015
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.
March Breakfast Meeting
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!
Birthing Kits: We’re in the Weekend Notes!
Have a look at the Weekend Notes for this coming weekend: the Zonta Club of Brisbane Breakfast’s annual Birthing Kit day is there!
(Have you signed up yet? Hurry – closes today!)
Birthing Kits Day 2014
Our annual Birthing Kits day will be held on the 16th of August this year!
Would you like to know more? Volunteer? Donate to the cause? Please have a look at the 2014 Birthing Kits page, and spread the word with your friends.
Look forward to seeing you there again this year!
Presentation by Dr Luc Mulimbalimba Masururu
To go to the Event page and purchase your ticket, please click here.
We Did It! 2013 Birthing Kits Success
The 2013 Birthing Kit day was a resounding success!
Thanks to everyone’s contributions of time, energy and funds, we were successful in completing 12,000 kits this year – ahead of time (by just after 11am)!!
Would you like to celebrate with us? Come to the Mexican Night!
Friday the 30th of August, 7pm at the Hotel Orient Mexican Kitchen.
Tickets available HERE