Join us November 14th at 6:30pm for a night of putting together our Mama Kits in support of VBI’s first Cultural Convergence Midwifery cohort leaving for Gulu in January 2020!

Here is a list of items of that you make up a clean Birth Kit. You can create a Birth Kit for just under $5.00. Please contact us for more information. Items will be shipped directly to Dyekora Sumda Midwifery in Brooklyn, NY.

Contact us directly at: info@villagebirthinternational.org 

You can contribute directly to our

Amazon Wish List: VBI Birth Kit Drive 

DONATE HERE 

What is a Birth Kit?
Essential birth items that help support a safe birth outcome for mother and baby. Clean birth kits help prevent maternal and neonatal deaths due to infection, preventing nearly 1 million deaths per year. 

Birth Kit Drive Supplies:

• Sterile gauze pads 3×3
• Gloves size medium and large
• Sterile gloves size 7-7.5
• Suture vicryl or chromic gut 3.0 taper needle
• Plastic sheeting
• Razor blades
• Chux underpads
• Maxi pads (non-scented)
• Menstrual cups
• Non-scented individual bars of soap
• Rolls of sterile string
• Baby blankets, gently used or new
• Baby shirts, gently used or new
• Baby onesies, gently used or new
• Baby hats, gently used or new

Mobile Midwifery Clinic

Other items needed:

• Dopplers
• BP cuffs-manual
• Stethoscopes
• Pitocin 10 ml vials – not expired
• Lidocaine single use – not expired
• Syringes 3ml with needle
• Syringes 5 ml with needle
• Sterile gauze pads 3×3
• Delee suction catheter
• Gloves size medium and large
• Sterile gloves size 7-7.5
• Suture vicryl or chromic gut 3.0 taper needle
• Plastic sheeting
• Razor blades
• Rolls of sterile string
• Baby blankets, gently used or new
• Baby shirts, gently used or new
• Baby onesies, gently used or new
• Baby hats, gently used or new
• Menstrual-cups, maxi-pads, cloth menstrual-pads

Financial donations will also support our project to pay for things like:

• Birth supplies
• Birth kits
• Financial compensation for our midwives, TBAs, nurses
• Midwifery trainings
• Maternal and infant life saving skills workshops
• Family planning, counseling, antenatal and postpartum classes
• Vehicle for transport
• Transportation funds
• Food and clean water
• Gas for generator
• Funds for solar energy supplies

Thank you,

Florence Ochitti and Aimee Brill

Founders, Village Birth International-Gulu

We organize our donations and supplies on an ongoing basis. Thank you so much for your support!