CleanBirth.org Volunteers: Meet Natalie
Natalie is making a huge difference to CleanBirth.org and women in Salavan Province, Laos.
She is an Australian psychologist who recently completed her first year as a medical student in Sydney Australia. She has extensive experience volunteering in Peru and Chile.
Natalie found CleanBirth.org on the internet and approached me to get involved. Here’s more about her motivation to get involved in her own words:
As part of my medical degree I am required to complete a social justice elective in an area of my choosing. My parents have been living and working in Vientiane for the past year and for this reason Laos has very much been on my radar. Through my interest in obstetrics in developing countries and being familiar with an Australia NGO Send Hope Not Flowers, CleanBirth.org caught my eye as an earnest and extremely valuable venture where I could potentially lend a hand.
From December 19-23, Natalie will be working closely with Dr. Nong and Noy, OVA staffer/CleanBirth.org’s part-time project manager on the ground.
They will distribute kits and review nurses’ data on Dec 20th and train the nurses on our new data tracking tool for Village Volunteers.
On Dec 21st they will coordinate the training of another 12 Village Volunteers in a Salavan District clinic. The nurses will teach the Village Volunteers not only to spread information about safe birth but also how to distribute and track the AYZH Clean Birth Kits.
We are so grateful to Natalie who is paying her own way and volunteering her time!
Three Weeks until Nurses and Volunteers Training in Salavan
On December 20th, CleanBirth.org and our partner OVA will meet with the 16 nurses we have trained to date. We will check data, give a 6 month supply of birth kits and conduct a mini-training on educating Village Volunteers.
On December 21st, our 2nd Village Volunteers training will take place at Buengkharm Clinic: 3 nurses will train 11 Volunteers.
Not only will these Village Volunteers return home with knowledge about how to make birth safer, they will bring AYZH Clean Birth Kits to pregnant women in their village.
With the generous help of Carol Perks of Save the Children in northern Laos, we have developed a picture tool to track the use of the kits. No reading required!
Once we see that the Volunteers can distribute and track the kits, we will be able to scale up the Village Volunteer program. Our goal: to get kits and education into every village in Salavan Province to make birth safer.
CleanBirth Listed in Numerous Holiday Guides!
So grateful to Multicultural Kids Blogs, Dancing Through Pregnancy, World Moms Blog and Michaela Evanow for including us on their lists of organizations to support this holiday season.
We are so honored to be included with heavy-hitting maternal health institutions like: Oxfam, Care, Unicef, Jhpiego, World Vision, Shanti Uganda, etc…
It is so wonderful to have more people getting the word out about our cards this season! Especially, when so little can do so much!
Please consider adding a $3 gift tag to your gift or giving a $10 full-sized card to someone who already has everything. You will be saving lives in Laos.
Plans for Nurses Meeting: December 20th
On December 20th we will gather all of the nurses we have trained to our partner’s HQ in Salavan.
Meeting Objectives:
- Improve data collection by nurses.
- Distribute needed # of kits/stipend to each nurse.
Main challenge to address:
Before we can give the birth kits to the Village Volunteers (which is our eventual goal) we need to improve the nurses tracking birth kits usage.
We are so thrilled that Natalie Gracia, a MD student from Sydney Australia will be working together with Dr. Nong and Noy to ensure that we put in place even clearer procedures for data tracking.
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