Students among volunteers assembling birth kits
STUDENTS and staff from Assumption College assisted in a worthwhile community event earlier this month.
Zoe Bowerman, Olivia McCluskey, Sarah Tansky and Britnee Wallace joined students from a variety of Warwick schools to assist members of the Warwick Zonta Club assemble birthing kits for distribution to needy countries.
Each year 60 million women give birth with the assistance of a traditional birth attendant or with no assistance at all.
The United Nations (WHO) estimates that 385,000 women die annually in childbirth.
Developing countries account for 99% of these deaths.
For every woman who dies in childbirth, another 30 women incur injuries and infections, many of which are painful, disabling, embarrassing and lifelong.
The Birthing Kit Foundation (Australia) is trying to reduce these statistics through education programs and the supply of clean birthing kits.
