Our Donors
Thank you to our DONORS OF GOODS for our containers!
We are privileged to be involved with generous good people and organisations. Thank you!
We need your help to make our containers full of valuable medical, educational and humanitarian resources.
How you can help us:
Keep us on your radar when next upgrading. Including goods from dental, medical, opthalmic, laboratories, dental technician and midwifery and all supply companies.
Similarly for our secondary and tertiary schools we need sewing machines, fabrics, all tools and text books (electrician, car mechanic, carpentry, agriculture), all educational resources (midwifery, medical and dental text books, posters and models), computers and monitors.
Our beneficiaries are orphans or very poor. Humanitarian goods in new and second hand clothes, sports clothes, shoes, blankets, caps, jumpers and bags are needed for all ages.
Contact our resource coordinators Sharon and Peter
Mun Global is a medical resource company. Mun have a generosity unheard of, which is so much appreciated. A truly caring company of wonderful people who have a heart to help. Mun donates surgical gloves, gloves, operating theatre shoe covers, sanitiser, moisturiser, gowns, hair covers.
We thank the Birthing Kit Foundation for the many Birthing kits sent each year. Birthing Kits were the start of our journey into DR Congo. Over 32,000 were in the last 2 containers, which saves the BKFA over $40,000 in transport fees. These savings go towards community development programs like training midwives.
Here the pygmie leader takes a box of 100 kits for the Mulenge pygmie community.
These sanitary wear packs, made in Australia and sent to DR Congo via our containers, provide girls and women with dignity. These discreet, durable and sustainable kits are the only sanitary wear available in the community. A Days for Girls Pack enables girls to attend school when they are menstruating instead of staying home. children’s clothes.
Over the years thousands of these packs, lovingly stitched by women in Australia, have been distributed in the DR Congo. The packs are also sought after by women of all ages as with 9+ births in a life time incontinence becomes an issue.
Women’s and Children Hospital Adelaide donate hundreds of high grade hospital mattresses and banks of quality waiting room chairs. In Congo we see these hospital mattresses everywhere in the clinics and hospitals. This quality mattress can not be purchased in Congo. Bwegera clinic, doctors at the newly opened clinic and the beds with mattresses from Adelaide.
Ensign Linen donates many sheets, patient gowns, surgical scrubs, baby wraps and more.
Our committee folding over 500 baby wraps, sorting clothes and fabrics for our women.
James and Judy-Anne from Equinox clothes donate 60 + cartons of new clothes every year. So very special as they are clothes the women can wear to brighten up every day. Please support this family business when looking for quality casual tops and pants.
Dr Fariba Benia-Willason donated 2 ultrasounds. With no other diagnostic tools like xrays these are the most valuable items the surgeons and doctors have for diagnosis of medical issues.
Bicycles for Humanity from Perth sent a 40-foot container of over 400 bikes to support the Bicycles for Health and Development program. This project helps women who carry heavy loads on their backs and heads to start using bicycles to carry the loads. The program helps to reduce poverty and promote socio-economic and health activities in different villages. The women are very grateful to Bicycles for Humanity for supporting MHCD with these bicycles and to all those who contributed to the transport from Australia to the DRC via the port of Dar Es Salaam in Tanzania. .
Fabrics for the Tailoring School are kindly donated by many supporters. The tailoring school teacher especially asked for pretty fabrics to make pretty clothes. We thank Mary-Ellen O’Brien for gathering many bags of pretty fabrics from her costume business. All haberdashery and fabrics are saved for our Tailoring school.
Two orphans in their new clothes. Each dress has its own matching bag. We receive 50 striped bags with thousands of new dresses and shorts and tops for boys. Hard to believe but we always need more!
Thank you it is a labour of love.
Maureen Leo from Adelaide is another long term keen sewer of children’s clothes and blankets.
Lyn Thomas and the Plympton Sewing Group continue to donate fabric and make beautiful children’s clothes. They also make baby rugs.
Sash Fergusen Retirement Home and many groups knit and crochet jumpers and beanies. We receive many bags and they are all given out. There are mountains where it gets cold and these jumpers are loved. We still need more. If you are a crocheter or knitter of small toys for children they would also be so wanted.
Crocheted rugs made by Shirley Lamb and Zonta Adelaide Hills club “Rugs for Love” campaign. Stunning bright colours. You can see how much they are loved by the Mulenge Pygmy women.
They have donated many pharmaceutical resources and antibiotics.