Birthing Kit Foundation (Australia) is committed to enabling women giving birth at home a clean birthing environment. They also work to set up training programs for traditional birth attendants and health workers. They have projects in 20+ countries, including Vietnam, Ethiopia, Kenya, Afghanistan and Papua New Guinea.
I’m really interested in the training programs:
Training programmes were initiated in 2005 to complement the distribution of the Birthing Kits. These involved 3 – 5 day training sessions where Traditional Birth Attendants, Health Extension Workers, Village Nurses and health workers were educated in nutrition, general health care, midwifery and issues relating to HIV/AIDS prevention. These programmes were designed by the local people to meet their needs.
The Birthing Kit Foundation (Australia) says
What a great blog! We’ve had so much interest from people interested in supporting us, and we’re now trying to get the word out that we’ve joined up with My Cause to make it easier for people to help us raise funds for a specific event. The details are on our fundraising page – please pass this on to anyone who may be interested!