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Help us to provide long term strategies to assist these people and prevent deaths of mothers and babies in the future ...
Please deposit funds directly into the account below and CONTACT US to let us know. Receipts will only be issued on request.
Commonwealth Bank of Australia
Account Name: Living Child Inc.
BSB:066 173 Account No:103 668 76
Please deposit funds directly into the account below and CONTACT US to let us know. Receipts will only be issued on request.
Commonwealth Bank of Australia
Account Name: Living Child Inc.
BSB:066 173 Account No:103 668 76
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At this stage donations made to Living Child Inc. are not Tax-Deductible.
There are no commissions paid, but when using a credit card there is a very small fee (around 1%) taken from the total donation amount.
At this stage donations made to Living Child Inc. are not Tax-Deductible.
WHere will your money go ?
Examples below show how your money will be used. We are a volunteer run organisation and all money donated goes towards providing our services.
Visual teaching aids
Our aim is to leave a set of teaching aids with each Village (a set per team of VBAs per village). The education we provide will help the VBAs teach the women in their village about family planning, pregnancy, birth and breastfeeding. The visual aids will assist them in this process of learning and understanding.
The visual aids include:
1. Knitted Uterus
2. Model of a pelvis
3. Doll with umbilical cord and placenta
4. Birth Talk Chart
5. Pregnancy Charts
6. Pinnard Stethoscope
A complete 'Visual Teaching kit' costs about $350
The visual aids include:
1. Knitted Uterus
2. Model of a pelvis
3. Doll with umbilical cord and placenta
4. Birth Talk Chart
5. Pregnancy Charts
6. Pinnard Stethoscope
A complete 'Visual Teaching kit' costs about $350
BIrthing Kits for each attending Village
It costs about $2 to make a Birthing Kit. The kits are made up of a clean piece of plastic, a pair of gloves, a small piece of soap, 3 pieces of clean string, a sterile scalpel blade and 5 pieces of gauze. On our previous visit we gave each village 30 birthing kits.
Education is given to the Village Birth Attendants on how to use the kits (the "7 cleans") and how to safely dispose of the items, in particular the scalpel blade.
The 7 Cleans:
1. Clean place to give birth - plastic sheet
2. Clean hands - gloves and soap
3. Clean cut of the cord - scalpel blade
4. Clean Ties - string to tie off umbilical cord
5. Clean eyes - gauze
6. Clean Perineum - gauze
7. Clean Cord stump - soap
Education is given to the Village Birth Attendants on how to use the kits (the "7 cleans") and how to safely dispose of the items, in particular the scalpel blade.
The 7 Cleans:
1. Clean place to give birth - plastic sheet
2. Clean hands - gloves and soap
3. Clean cut of the cord - scalpel blade
4. Clean Ties - string to tie off umbilical cord
5. Clean eyes - gauze
6. Clean Perineum - gauze
7. Clean Cord stump - soap
sponsoring Village Birth Attendants
The Village Birth Attendants live in remote villages. Transport costs are high if travelling by power boat, and distances are long and weather dependent. Our training is intensive. We work with MECOC (Melanesian Churches of Christ) as the hosts of the training. MECOC facilitate the accomodation and food preparation for the guests to stay in a village for the duration of the education. They also subsidise petrol costs to get the VBAs and other health volunteers to the venue. All VBAs are volunteers.
Your donation will be used to transport, accomodate and feed the VBAs coming for education
Costs approx $50 per Village Birth Attendant
Your donation will be used to transport, accomodate and feed the VBAs coming for education
Costs approx $50 per Village Birth Attendant
teaching manual
Hesperian Publishers produce books specifically for health workers in the developing world. Two publications that are very helpful for the VBAs that can read English are: A Book for Midwives and Where Women Have No Doctor.
Each book costs $30 plus postage from the USA
Each book costs $30 plus postage from the USA
