The Zonta Club of Bendigo put together almost 2000 birthing kits on Saturday.
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The birthing kits will be sent to third world countries and help provide a cleaner environment for mothers to give birth in.
Kits cost $3 each to put together and include a metre-squared piece of black plastic sheet, rubber gloves, gauze, soap, cord to tie off the umbilical cord and a steralised scalpel blade to cut the umbilical cord
“To do 2000 kits costs $6000, so we do a lot of fundraising,” Zonta Bendigo’s birthing kit coordinator Irene McKinna said.
“They are sent through the Birthing Kit Foundation of Australia, which has been going for 10 years.”
Ms McKinna said the kits make a tremendous difference to the people that receive them.
“They help provide a clean birth and just by using gloves helps reduce the risk of diseases spreading.
“As well as sending kits out, the village birth attendant is bought into hospital and taught how to use the kits.”