International Programs |
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birth kits for ETHIOPIA
Collaboration with First Breath International,
Most people have heard about far off countries, riddled with need and corruption. Several people know someone who has traveled to a developing country, to teach, bring aid, or just experience it. Even fewer people have themselves traveled to a poverty wracked country. Whether you’ve seen it with your own eyes, or through someone else’s, the reality of the conditions in other parts of the world remain the same.
Katrina Rauch, a Midwife from First Breath Midwifery and her husband Brad, a pharmacist at Billings Clinic, recently took their second trip to Ethiopia to help treat expectant mothers and also to distribute hundreds of birth kits that were made and assembled by volunteers from all over Billings.
Katrina and her team also visited several orphanages. One that really stood out to her was one that was run out of a home by a mother and her son. Ebenezer and his mother house and help girls who have been raped. They help with the recovery and medical needs of these girls. They opened the orphanage when they began to see a need for the children (mostly abandoned) of rape victims as well as continuing to help the victims themselves. The name of their home is Talita Rise Up. They are currently housing 11 children age 4 and under, most of whom are infants.
As you can see, people across the world can be impacted in a huge way by people here and you don’t need to leave to help. Sponsorships, giving funds for supplies, volunteering, assembling care packages or birth kits or even just praying for the workers to be effective and the people to be helped are huge ways we, as a community in Montana, can help our fellow mom, dad or child in their community.
Most people have heard about far off countries, riddled with need and corruption. Several people know someone who has traveled to a developing country, to teach, bring aid, or just experience it. Even fewer people have themselves traveled to a poverty wracked country. Whether you’ve seen it with your own eyes, or through someone else’s, the reality of the conditions in other parts of the world remain the same.
Katrina Rauch, a Midwife from First Breath Midwifery and her husband Brad, a pharmacist at Billings Clinic, recently took their second trip to Ethiopia to help treat expectant mothers and also to distribute hundreds of birth kits that were made and assembled by volunteers from all over Billings.
Katrina and her team also visited several orphanages. One that really stood out to her was one that was run out of a home by a mother and her son. Ebenezer and his mother house and help girls who have been raped. They help with the recovery and medical needs of these girls. They opened the orphanage when they began to see a need for the children (mostly abandoned) of rape victims as well as continuing to help the victims themselves. The name of their home is Talita Rise Up. They are currently housing 11 children age 4 and under, most of whom are infants.
As you can see, people across the world can be impacted in a huge way by people here and you don’t need to leave to help. Sponsorships, giving funds for supplies, volunteering, assembling care packages or birth kits or even just praying for the workers to be effective and the people to be helped are huge ways we, as a community in Montana, can help our fellow mom, dad or child in their community.
