Living Child was founded in 2013 by Australian midwife Sara David AM. Since then, they have worked to advance maternal health, WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene), nutrition and community resilience and safety in rural and remote villages in East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea.

Keeping mothers and babies healthy and safe throughout pregnancy and birth is a vital part of building resilient, healthy communities. Living Child provide maternal health awareness and first aid equipment to Village Health Volunteers and Village Birth Attendants, training them as health promoters and noting their important role in encouraging the women in their villages to seek supervised births in health facilities wherever possible.

Sister Christina is the nursing officer in charge at Kambot Health Centre on the remote Keram River in East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. She has attended upskilling training in midwifery skills from Living Child to improve her knowledge and practice in obstetric emergencies.

There is no midwife in the area and her health centre is the first facility on the river that many of the village people can reach in an emergency. She has seen the value of the training and Clean Birth Kits given to the Village Birth Attendants in the communities, and now distributes the kits on her outreach visits to the communities, where she delivers antenatal and child vaccination clinics and other health programs.

Message from Sr Christina:

“On behalf of Keram people we would like to thank Living Child and Birthing Kit Foundation for all the support. I as the health worker in such remote setting it is very difficult for me to excess [sic] such gifts. We are really blessed to have you at our back. Thanks once more.

I wanted to update you of our integrated programs during immunization with Outreach ANC [ante natal clinics] along Keram Black River especially Buten, Munit and Pusten villages. Attached photos of our lovely belmama [Village Birth Attendants] with the delivery kits / clean birth kits that you and your team supplied to us. Ta.”

– Sr Christina