Dearest Colleagues | Staff | Family | and Chase Tanzania trip update – only 9 days to go before we leave.

Chase sits her final semester University exam the day we leave so she is focused right now on study. Equipment update: I am trying to get as much single use disposable medical equipment from GP’s | Doctors surgeries | Hospitals as Tanzania Amana Hospital can use as much equipment as possible.

Coolum 7 day Medical Practice have been the first to come to the fore with manual BP machines – something that is almost a dying art. The Coolum 7 days Surgery has them store away so they might as well make a difference somewhere in the world. I have my pinnards which is manual device used to listen to babies heart rates – I used to use in PNG 100 years ago – have dusted it off !! I have also ordered from Coolum 7 day two Doppler’s small manual Fetal Heart rate monitors for the Hospital to keep.

Sunshine Coast Private Hospital Maternity Unit Health | Ward 1 A (Uniting Health) have also donated some little baby clothes and we are trying to gather as much single use equipment as we can.

Becker Helicopters have also donated some medical equipment, some of which is for teaching and training over there. One is a baby model for teaching neonatal resuscitation– they have a training program in the hospital but don’t have enough baby models to teach. So Becker Helicopters are donating the little models that are sold at a very reduced price to countries that are part of the

United Nations Millennium goals. It’s great to see large companies getting behind the lack of resources. http://www.laerdalglobalhealth.com/ Chase & I have to take our own gloves if we want to wear gloves for any procedures and deliveries.

Thanks to Peregian Springs Medical Practise and Coolum 7 day medical practise we have been immunized for Rabies, Cholera, Typhoid, Hep A & B, Tetanus, Yellow Fever, etc etc We are partially packed with all the extra equipment we are taking for the hospital. Beanies update: My mum has sent off her knitted beanies from NZ, Aunty Glenny is still knitting (Go Aunty Glenny) and Granny going well with Kayla lagging behind (Chase sister)

Will have photos of these wee babies wearing these gifts of love. What a fabulous response ……it’s overwhelming | Thankyou ….

Chase & I have been hand washing and drying all, the booties and hats and singlet to make sure they are all fresh and clean. Just gorgeous detail in some of the little wee hats….. I cannot thank you all enough. How privileged to be part of something that is so infused with love for these little babies.

I take my hat off to you all cos I can’t knit to save myself. See below Perry’s mum has some great photos of all these women knitting away …..it brings tears to your eyes such generosity of time, energy, wool and love

Just sent the courier parcel and this morning took a photo of Judith Chapman ( on the right in the red- she was the one who organised the knitters) and Mary Busch.

They were the only ones who could turn up for the photo at the RSA. Only a few of the beanies on the table the rest still in the box. The 62 were knitted in 4 days and the man in the wheelchair from Oxford had done 22 of them!!!!!!! NZ Couriers take the consignment to Auckland today.

We have done all the Custom forms and sent with the box. Fedex Auckland receive the consignment and send it on to Backers. Don’t have consignment number but could get if required. Love Dad and Mum.

Attention: Capt. Jan Becker

PO BOX 9165

Pacific Paradise

QLD 4564 AUSTRALIA

If you want to be removed from the email updates I won’t be offended- just put remove on the subject line Hospital in Tanzania The new maternity Block – perhaps I should take a pot of paint to brighten it up a bit!

Jan

Dear family, friends and colleagues

Chase and I are travelling to Dar as Salaam, Tanzania on June 19^th to volunteer as a student Nurse (Chase) and Midwife ( Jan)

In Africa one in 22 women die in childbirth

In the United Nations Millennium Declaration, many nations committed their nations to a new global partnership to reduce extreme poverty and setting out a series of time-bound targets — with a deadline of 2015 — that have become known as the Millennium Development Goals.

The eight MDGs form a blueprint agreed to by all the world’s countries and all the world’s leading development institutions. They have galvanized unprecedented efforts to meet the needs of the worlds poorest.

I am keen on the Goal 4 & 5 the Millennium Development Goals

• Goal 4: Reduce child mortality

• Goal 5: Improve maternal health

It’s been on my radar for a long time and now is the time. It’s time to give back!

For many of you you know I worked in PNG and Outback. My love for nursing in areas of extreme need has always pulled me. How cool would it be to actually fly in the helicopter – give vaccinations and then fly out?

That dream is a little way off ……but I will fulfil that one day.

So after months of research ….Chase and I are travelling to Dar as Salaam, Tanzania where we are working in a hospital that has 100 deliveries per day. The hospital is Armana IN Dar es Salaam. http://amanahospital.go.tz/

They are very under resourced.

Now this is  where you all come in…….I know many of you can knit. ……

So here the challenge ………………………..Chase & I leave June 19^th

We need the knitted beanies to arrive about 16^th June

We want to take 1300 beanies!!!!!

One for every baby born every day that we are there.