STUDENTS HELP SAVE MUMS

STUDENTS at St Hilda’s School and the Southport School have joined forces to make first-aid kits for women in critical birthing conditions worldwide.

Members of the TSS Round Square group invited the St Hilda’s School Amnesty International members to support the Birthing Kit Foundation Australia (BKFA), with the aim of making 600 birthing kits for women overseas in harsh conditions.

It is estimated 300,000 women die every year from birthing complications.

That’s one woman dying every two minutes from a significantly reducible death cause, with the main reasons for fatality being infection and over-bleeding.

With these heartbreaking statistics in mind, the BKFA is encouraging people worldwide to make birthing kits that target these two main causes.

Each kit contains a mat, soap, scalpel, string, gloves and bandages.

They take such a low level of time and energy to put together, and can have such a beneficial impact on women who are in dreadful conditions.

The Gold Coast students have shown a genuine level of passion at the prospect of being involved with this extremely worthy foundation.

Last month, the students formed a production line to make the first of their 600 birthing kits.

Within an hour, the on-scene supplies were used up and 120 kits were made.

The students plan to meet up to continue aiding the BKFA once their supplies have been restocked.

It is humbling to see Gold Coast schools getting involved in meaningful and worldly issues, making our world safer for everyone, one kit at a time.