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Helping out in Bougainville

I had an email today from a midwife, Jacqueline Noble, who is now working in Papua New Guinea. I had first met her in London at a workshop and later she visited us at our headquarters in Sydney. It is amazing how midwives travel around!

Here is an extract from her email:

"As you may be aware, Bougainville experienced a civil war for 10 years from 1989-1998, known as "the Crisis". This province of Papua New Guinea has been struggling to get back on it's feet, having had periods of no health service delivery at all during the Crisis. Many women died in childbirth during this 10-year period.

I worked in Buin Health Centre in 1999-2000 as a volunteer midwife, during which time I worked closely with the health workers. The midwife [who is now working there], Cecilia Naguo, only trained last year in Port Moresby as a midwife. This is a big step forward in trying to improve maternal health care in South Bougainville. Cecilia is very keen to provide a good quality maternity service to the women of the Buin area. Therefore I support her efforts to procure useful resources that she can use to teach her fellow health workers (some of whom do not have basic qualifications) and provide health education to the women and community too".

We will support this effort by giving them an extra discount on the goods they are purchasing from us for use in Bougainville. At the present time Australian police and troops are working to restore law and order in that country as the leaders of a multinational team, and we will be happy to play a very small part in this effort.

There is so much war and strife in the world right now, and women and babies inevitably get caught up in it all. We are very lucky to live in a stable, tolerant and democratic country, and even though it has its faults, it is truly a paradise compared to some parts of this world. We must all try and do our bit for humanising societies and communities wherever we can.

Posted by andrea at August 08, 2003 02:54 PM

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