Zonta celebrates fine fundraising

An impressive pile of 40 colourful hand-made blankets were donated to Catherine House for Adelaide’s homeless women at Zonta International’s handover dinner for the Adelaide/Flinders club this week.

The event at Ayers House attended by 50 women and some men, saw retiring president  Carolyn Colquhuon  hand the reins of the women’s service club to Jodi Knoop.

Guests also viewed an illuminating video of Zonta’s Australia-wide birthing kit program for third world countries, including Ethiopia, Chad and Cambodia.

The kits are assembled at workshops where groups of Zontians and friends pack the individual parts including a clean piece of plastic, soap and plastic gloves into neat packages, which are then distributed to poor regions of the world where hygiene is low and infant mortality is high. In some regions, there is not even running water in the huts with dirt floors where babies are born.

The video stated that 500,000 women die each year around the world delivering their babies or from high rates of infection.

The service club also presented a cheque for $4000 to Margaret MacDonald for her sponsorship of Cambodian orphanage Mekhala House.

The Foundation for Developing Cambodian Communities (FDCC) operates Mekhala House, a home for orphaned and underprivileged girls in a rural province of Cambodia. It is home to 45 children and was established by a group of Australians four years ago.

All Australians involved are volunteers andtheir aim is to empower girls so they can become leaders in their communities. See www.fdcc.org.au.

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