400 Clean Birth Kits for 400 Pregnant Women
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Mothers give birth every day in unclean environments. A simple infection can lead to severe illness and death.
The Challenge: A clean and safe birth for all mothers.
Many women who live in poverty are forced to give birth in dirty places without professional medical help. Sometimes well-meaning friends or relatives will cut the umbilical cord with an unclean object such as a piece of bamboo. Infection during delivery threatens the lives of both mothers and babies. Health services lack resources, and expectant mothers cannot afford to pay for the basic materials needed for safe childbirth.
Six small items make a big difference: gauze, a scalpel blade, gloves, a plastic sheet, soap and a piece of cord. As part of a Clean Birthing Kit, these items become vital resources for health workers to ensure that childbirth is safer, infection rates are lower, and women have the essentials for a clean delivery.
Every $5 provides a clean birth kit to a woman in need
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The Rotary Club of Wyndham Harbour will host one Assembly Day. This will ensure that at least 400 kits are assembled and delivered to women facing the most challenging circumstances.
Birthing Kits are an internationally accepted intervention to support a clean birth. Each item in the Birthing Kit works to reduce infections at key high-risk moments of care during labour, birth and immediately post-birth for the mother, newborn and birth attendant.
The 400 kits will help save over 400 mothers, 400 babies and countless families. It takes a village to raise a child and a global movement to ensure a safe birth for a mother and her infant!
This project is being delivered with the support of a grant from the Rotary Foundation.
Every $5 provides a clean birth kit to a woman in need
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References
Maternal and Child Health- How Simple Solutions Save Lives .... https://www.worldvision.com.au/global-issues/work-we-do/poverty/maternal-and-child-health-how-simple-solutions-save-lives
Source of Image - https://www.bkfa.org.au/
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RotaryClub WyndhamHarbour
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Melbourne, VIC