Australian Mormons Prepare Birthing Kits for Madagascar

Latter-day Saint women in Australia participated in an extensive service project during the fall of 2010 in order to help women giving birth in Madagascar, where few new mothers are able to give birth with help or in sanitary conditions.  The women are members of the Relief Societ of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the oldest and largest women’s organization in the world.

The service project was organized in support of The Birthing Kit Foundation-Australia (www.birthingkitfoundation.org.au) through Zonta International, an organization that supplies kits to help provide clean birthing conditions in disadvantaged countries. [1]  A half million women in third-world countries die each year, due to unsafe birthing conditions.  This project created 600 birthing kits meant to lower this statistic.

The LDS women donated their time and energies with gratitude that they have so many advantages in their developed society that the women in Madagascar have no access to.  They were glad to be able to help in some way.