December Workshop
Mama to Mama has teamed up with Konbit Sante to gather infant caps to include in their Safe Birthing Kits. We loved the idea so much we decided to help too! As part of Church of Craft this month we will provide a tutorial on how to make the caps.
About Konbit Sante:
Konbit Sante is a Maine-based volunteer partnership working to save lives and improve health care in northern Haiti. In Haitian Creole, a konbit is a traditional method of working together to till your friends' and neighbors fields as well as your own - a cooperative effort. Sante means health. The name defines their committment to address the staggering health problems in northern Haiti where most lack basic care and live without running water.
One aspect of their work involves OB/GYN care . Konbit Sante is working to assemble Safe Birthing Kits to be distributed by traditional birth attendants in the desperately poor Fort St. Michel area of Cap-Haitien. These kits - consisting of plastic sheeting, hand sanitizer, a sterile piece of string and razor blade, and these newborn baby caps - have the potential to reduce infant and maternal mortality, and give babies a safer, healthier start.
Some heart felt thoughts about the project from Sew Liberated.
Donations for this Workshop: t-shirts, thread, time!
create. reflect. give back.
- Church of Craft Houston
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