workforce
relievers, 1000 packets of gloves, and
suture kits for perineal repairs.
From the not-for-profit we have in
Australia, we donate the money to the not-
for-profit or NGO that we have in Dar es
Salaam. And then we use that to focus on
that hospital, on training the midwives and
the Helping Babies Breathe program.
And we’ve just started a business there.
We employed two local Tanzanian folks,
Michael and Elizabeth. Our dream, or our
vision, is to create a sustainable business
that creates enough money to keep
midwives in training and education, and to
pay for drugs, gloves and the needs of the
mothers. We’re just developing an app, an
education app for the midwives, and we’re
developing a whole education package for
the mums, in really simple terms.
The University of the Sunshine Coast
recently named you Outstanding
Alumnus for 2017. You said the
recognition helps put the midwives of
Tanzania on the map. What would you
like people to know about the work
that they do?
I just think these are some of the
champions of the world, these midwives.
We, as nations, got together at the
United Nations, 193 nations, and came up
with sustainable development goals. Part
of that is maternal and child health, and
the people that are at the forefront are
the midwives.
And the midwives in Tanzania, they
do different things to what we do in
Australia. Some of the areas are core, but
in Tanzania we deliver breech deliveries,
vacuum deliveries, you do all your perineal
repairs, you manage the eclamptic
women, postpartum haemorrhage,
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