Faith in Action: Assembling Birth Kits in NYC

This past weekend the members of the Advent Maternal Health Initiative at Advent Lutheran Church in New York City spent the afternoon assembling Healthy Birth Kits.  The Kits, containing soap, gloves, string, a razor blade, and baby blankets, will be sent to Healing Hands of Joy, a nonprofit working in Mekelle, Ethiopia.

Members of AMHI and volunteers working in an assembly line

All the contents of the kits go into gallon plastic bags

Men *can* work for maternal health!

tah-dah! The finished product.

Suzanne Campise, coordinator of AMHI, says that the birth kits were “a tangible action to approach the idea of maternal health. Healthy Birth kits are easier to talk about than a fistula. Plus, it’s a great way to get kids and families involved, and they can do something concrete.”

Find out more about healthy birth kits check out this resource from the United Methodist Church, and feel free to contact AMHI at AdventMaternalHealthInitiative@yahoo.com.