Monetary Donations
Ultimately the most useful donation we can receive is money.
Money allows us to buy equipment and medication that ordinary people would not be able to access. By providing us with monetary donations and with a specific idea of what you want that to go towards you can email us and outline what you want your donations to be used for whether it be medication, medical equipment, gloves or water for the mothers.
Please think carefully about your donations as they do mean a lot to the people who receive them and we want you to feel satisfied by your generosity.
We Donate Direct
All your donations will be received by Midwife Vision and distributed directly to the maternity unit at the Amana Hospital in Dar es Salam, Tanzania. Your donations are specifically given to the maternity unit, not the hospital, to ensure they are not used for other departments.
Donations for the Mothers
Mothers are beautiful, strong all-knowing women to their children, but in Tanzania mothers can only be so strong.
Orphaned babies are often the focus of sadness and the babies themselves, healthy or not, are most times viewed by the world as more precious than their forgotten mothers. A lot of donations have been focused on providing for the babies because the child mortality rate is higher. That does not make a mother’s life any less important.
We have many suggestions for donations to help mothers but no matter what you donate, remember that what goes around comes around. Helping the hospital, helps the mothers which helps the babies and so on. Life is a circle and so is love, it can be shared.
We greatly appreciate…
- Monetary Donations
- Water*
Mothers labour for hours on end and water is precious, often reserved for washing hands and sterilizing. So much so that mothers and babies can be severely dehydrated. Donating a slab of filled clean water in bottles ensures that mothers can have a bottle of water to drink during labour. - Medications*
Eclampsia and pre-eclampsia are just an example of some preventable conditions that can be allleviated, controlled or cured with the correct medication. Some medications are high risk so please email us if you wish to donate medication (jan@midwifevision.org). - Pain Relief*
The mothers are expected to endure labour with no pain relief at all (unless undergoing cesarean-section). If they tear during labour they are given only 5 miligrams of lignocaine. Comparatively, in Australia we given 20 miligrams and provide ongoing pain relief after that. Simple medication such as Panadol is a godsend for these women. - Sanitary Pads*
The mothers often have post-natal bleeding and use cotton wads to put between their legs to soak up the blood. Sanitary Pads make all the difference in comfort, hygiene and durability.
* If you are able to donate these items, please contact us so we can advise the best delivery methods.
Donations for the Babies
A person’s life is never in more danger than at birth and in first few moments thereon. So many things hold in the balance that allows babies to survive and thrive to grow and be healthy.
Most babies born via obstructed labour have ended up in the Neonatal Unit. Babies are lined up next to each other under fly nets to prevent unwanted infection. Cross-contamination is a huge issue but with so many in critical need and so little room there is not much to be done.
Therefore, we go back to the source; we make sure that make a healthy delivery and antenatal care and we prevent a stay in the Neonatal Unit, reserving said unit for only the sickest, lowering the volume of babies and increasing breathing room, whereupon cross-contamination is lessened and recovery is more successful. Therefore, to help the babies, we go back to the most critical moment of their lives; back in labour ward and antenatal.
We greatly appreciate…
- Baby Beanies
- Baby Pouches
- Chloromycetin Eye Ointment* (prevents eye infections in newborns)
- Cord Clamps* (ask us about which brand to buy)
- Money Donations
- Cloth Nappies with nappy claws* – no Pins please – (for Newborn and Premature Babies only)
* If you are able to donate these items, please contact us so we can advise the best delivery methods.
Donations for the Hospital
Amana Hospital in Dar es Salam, Tanzania (Africa) – Maternity Unit
From the Antenatal Unit, the Labour ward, the Post-Operative Ward to the Neonatal Unit, there is so much that encompasses the nine month journey from conception to birth and home again. The Hospital plays a huge role in the care of both mother and baby.
The Hospital provides ongoing care but without specific equipment they are not able to give the kind of care they desperately want. By providing the hospital with help in the maternity units whether it is soap for staff to wash their hands or a surgical gurney, it will make a difference.
We greatly appreciate…
- Monetary Donations
- Medical Equipment*: e.g. BP monitors, Fetal Dopplers, needles and syringes, delivery beds, etc.
- Medications and Drugs*: e.g. IV Fluid, Pain Relief for mothers, Oxytocin, etc.
- Hospital Supplies*: e.g. Soap, alcohol rub, blueys (surgical plastic used to create a sterile feild), etc.
* If you are able to donate these items, please contact us so we can advise the best delivery methods.