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celebrating birthdays.
Today we celebrate birthdays! Lots and lots of HAPPY, HEALTHY BIRTHDAYS!
We have now assembled 10,023 Clean Birth Kits for women and infants in underdeveloped countries! These kits have, and will, potentially touch the lives of over 20,000 human beings--both mama and baby (and their families and communities)!
Thank you to Our Lady of Sorrows Parish, South Oakland Shelter and our youth team! The 96 kits we assembled put us over the 10,000 mark, and although we didn't have cake..., we're celebrating BIRTHDAYS today!
Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Parish - Farmington, MI
South Oakland Shelter
Through a partnership between a small community of religious Filipino Sisters whose ministry is serving the poor in the Philippines, the Diocese of Joliet (IL), The Poor Household of God (a nonprofit supporting the Sisters), Presence Health and GHC, 500 birthing kits were sent to the Sisters in Borongan, Eastern Samar, Philippines a few months ago.
This week, we received an email from Mary Jane Trinkus from The Poor Household of God with some exciting news. The kits were tran...sported to the far-flung village of Burak, where there were 11 pregnant women. Ms. Trinkus said that after the terrible typhoon Yolanda a few years ago, deliveries were free, but that only lasted for 24 months. Below is the current situation for a pregnant woman:
-Deliveries at home are not allowed.
-All women must go to a rural health clinic or a hospital to have their babies.
-The closest rural health unit is about 1 hour and 15 minutes away with the only transportation being by motorcycle or motorized tricycle.
-A jeepnie (similar to a small bus) makes just one stop a day in the village.
-Each vaginal ’normal’ delivery cost 2000 pesos=$40.00.
-The supplies the pregnant woman needs to bring cost about 1000 pesos=$20.00.
This village is quite poor, and the birthing kits were able to save the family the $20 expense.
Each pregnant woman received a kit. Kits were also given to the rural health clinic.
These kits were assembled by PRESENCE HEALTH in Chicago and MERCY HIGH SCHOOL students in Farmington Hills!
Thank you to all of our partners--together we can help women and infants experience a dignified, clean birth and avoid infection-related deaths. Know that your work is and will continue to make a difference.
Thank you to Mary Jane Trinkus for the beautiful photos!
Presence Health
Mercy High School Farmington Hills
Diocese of Joliet
Poor Household of God
Detroit Catholic Central HS HOSA club, 50 of your clean birth kits have arrived in Hanoi, Vietnam!
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Detroit Catholic Central High School HOSA club, 50 of your clean birth kits have arrived in Hanoi, Vietnam! Thank you again for supporting our mission!
Detroit Catholic Central High School
Shamrock Moms
Detroit Catholic Central High school HOSA club, 50 of the kits you assembled last week are on their way to Vietnam!
Global Health Charities added 41 new photos from January to the album: Hope Lutheran Church Clean Birth Kit Assembly Event — at Hope Lutheran Church, Farmington Hills, MI.
We thank Hope's Lutheran Church's Children, Youth and Family Minister, Donnie Lehmann, Jessica Beamer, and the entire congregation of Hope Lutheran Church in Farmington Hills!
GHC worked with both the middle school and high school youth groups to assemble 500 Clean Birth Kits on 1/21/18! These kits will be transported to one of our global partners to help pregnant women experience a clean, healthy birth.
What a wonderful night it was...THANK YOU HOPE LUTHERAN, for potentiall...y impacting 1000 lives!
Hope Lutheran Church, Farmington Hills, MI
Global Health Charities added 8 new photos — with Rima Ghafari Jasser.
Thank you to Mrs. Caitlyn O’Connell and the young men in the Detroit Catholic Central High School HOSA Club! Guided by wonderful GHC Ambassadors Diana Jasser and Bridget Stockton, and GHC Youth Team Leader Sean McAdams, the club assembled around 95 Clean Birth Kits and helped finalize assembly of 200 additional kits to give women and infants in developing countries a clean birth! Watch for a video of this event, put together by CC students!
We applaud CC, Mrs. O’Connell, and ...her HOSA Club—this is their third year helping us in this work and they have assembled over 500 kits over the years
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Detroit Catholic Central High School
Shamrock Moms
John Huber
Dennis J Noelke
At GHC, we love good stories. About college students and bake sales and Chick-Fil-A sandwiches and INITIATIVE!
On November 14th, GHC received an email from Ms. Olivia Whitcomb, a college student at the University of the South in TN. Her new Rotaract college club had been working on raising money for Global Health Charities' Birth Kit Project and wanted to donate. We did not know these students. We did not ask them. They took it upon themselves to choose an organization that ...resonated with them and hold a Baked Goods/Chick-fil-A sale, with all proceeds going to GHC.
We admire their energy, initiative, heart, and concern for their global neighbor. This club is going to be successful. Without a lot of fanfare, they organized, baked, sold baked goods (“Muffins for Mama’s”) and Chick-fil-A sandwiches (“Biscuits for Babies”), talked about GHC, and made an impact.
Kudos to Olivia and this GREAT group of young people, the Rotaract Club, and the University of the South for their part in producing global citizens.
We asked them to talk about why they did it and send pics, and they sent this beautiful video. We will be sending them pics/video of where their kits will go, so they can see the impact of their work!
University of the South
Rotaract
Chick-fil-A
As we reflect on 2017 and look eagerly to a brand new year, please consider GHC in your plans to make an impact!
Would you consider donating just $10 per month to GHC for the next twelve months (or 3 or 6 months)?
Up until 12/31, if you make any new RECURRING DONATION (3-month minimum) your initial gift will be matched at 100%!
...https://www.globalgiving.org/…/clean-birth-kits-for-pregna…/
We are so grateful for our volunteers, donors, supporters--all who have brought the GHC mission to life!
GHC'S "$10 FOR 12" PROGRAM!
2017 is almost over--but there's still time to do something wonderful! And it will only take a few minutes.
Would you consider donating $10 per month to GHC for the next twelve months? For the price of a specialty coffee per week, you could really change, or save, someone's life!
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If you can't donate for 12 months, how about for six, or three months?
Up until 12/31, any RECURRING DONATION (3-month minimum) made via the below link will be matched at 100%!!!
https://www.globalgiving.org/…/clean-birth-kits-for-pregna…/
Could be a perfect tribute or gift for someone you love❤️.
St. Mary Mercy Hospital Livonia, here are the clean birth kits that your graduating nurses assembled a week ago, arriving in Nigeria! I was so pleased to be able to personally deliver these to the RAiSE Foundation which is working on infant and maternal mortality in Nigeria, as I was coming to Nigeria for meetings anyway! After 32 hours of air travel (not the most direct of routes!) and a 3 hour drive to Minna, they have been delivered! Nigeria accounts for 2.4% of the worlds population but 40% of the world's maternal deaths! Thank you for making a difference! These kits save lives!
St. Mary Mercy Hospital in Livonia, the clean birth kits you assembled last week went with Patty Williams from the GHC office in Farmington to the car to the airport! They are now with her in Washington DC! The next stop is Addis Ababa, Ethiopia!
She emptied one bin and placed them in her suitcase to save the cost of one extra luggage!
St. Mary Mercy Livonia
Thank you to Jennifer Unsworth and the graduating nurse residents from St Mary Mercy Hospital for their work assembling Clean Birth Kits yesterday! The hospital also donated receiving blankets, infant caps, gloves and cord clamps—we are grateful St. Mary’s!
St. Mary Mercy Livonia
St Mary's Mercy Hospital School of Nursing
THANK YOU to all that donated on Giving Tuesday to Global Health Charities...together, we raised $1,931 in 24 hours for our Clean Birth Kit program!
End the day knowing that your donation will provide clean birth supplies to a woman and infant, and possibly save a life (or two)...that's the power of Giving Tuesday!
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Giving Tuesday on GlobalGiving
We have raised $1,733 from 24 donors...THANK YOU TO ALL WHO HAVE TAKEN THE TIME TO DONATE!
40 minutes and $267 dollars to go! Let's make this happen!
Remember, GlobalGiving.org will match ALL NEW RECURRING DONATIONS at 200% as long as the donation remains active for 3 months! If you make a 3-month recurring donation of $20 (ultimately a $60 donation), you will actually be donating $180 to GHC!
...Plus ALL donations, one-time or recurring, will make us eligible for additional prize money!
Please give via this secure link:
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