OUR VISION
To take simple and practical steps to strengthen the existing healthcare facilities in Papua New Guinea with the aim of decreasing the infant and maternal mortality and morbidity rates.
Join us for our Packing Day
Saturday April 20th, 10am - 4pm. Morning tea and lunch provided
Get involved
How You Can Help
Volunteer at a Packing Day
We receive donations of second hand clothing and other items for new mothers, babies and toddlers that need to be sorted and packed into our Mother and Baby packs.
We love for people to come along and see first hand what we do here in Melbourne. You can drop off donations and help sort and pack our valuable containers.
Become a Member
To ensure all the money raised is used to fund our project sin Papua New Guinea, we are asking our supporters to become financial members.
Your financial contribution will help us cover our administrative costs.
Donate or make Goods
We accept donations for our Mother and Baby Pack project, Health Worker Kit Project and other medical equipment. We also accept donations of tea cups and saucers, tea pots and three tiered cake stand for our high tea fundraiser.
Hold an Event
A member of our committee would love to come and talk with your group to share more about what, we do.
You could hold your own fundraising event or donation drive.
Our Projects
There are many challenges to obtaining health care in PNG. The rugged terrain causes difficulty with communication and distribution of medical supplies between villages. The many rural villages scattered throughout the countryside and a low commitment to healthcare contributes to the high mortality and morbidity rates in PNG.
The maternal and infant death rates are amongst the highest in the world. This is due to inadequate prenatal and postnatal care and inadequate birthing facilities; especially in many of the remote villages where health facilities are sparse.
This is how we help
These provide essentials items to minimise complications from infection and hypothermia
These give Birth Attendants vital equipment to assist in birth outside of hospitals.
AND EDUCATION PROGRAMS
We assist hospitals in the remote highlands of PNG that are very under resourced.
the next area that we are supporting
Current News
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2021/2022
Annual Report
2020/2021
Annual Report
Another year of Covid Challenges didn’t stop us from sending the long-awaited container to Kompian Rural Hospital.
Read about our year and the continued successes we have had.
2019/2020
Annual Report
A trip to PNG and a Pandemic . . . another successful year.
2018/2019
Annual Report
A new location for our packing and sorting, a new container destination and more Health Worker kits make it to PNG.