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25.01.2022 Happy International Nurse Day to all the amazing nurses out there!

20.01.2022 Recipe for awesomeness: Take nine final year midwifery students and their brilliant academic facilitator, 25 local Chepang women and a hard-working and brillian...t Nepali team to organise, translate, feed, accommodate and entertain us- mix well, bake for 4 days in the oppressive monsoon heat then smile and watch the magic happen. Training in aspects of midwifery was provided to 25 villages leaders from multiple villages in the hills who gathered in Jinglawo to meet us. The women from the Chepang hills of Nepal are beautiful and strong. It is always a pleasure and a privilege to spend time with them and hear their stories. (half of the photo credits to students from the group who happen to be great photographers as well as midwives)

16.01.2022 Friday flashback! Last week marked the 4th anniversary of Nepal's devastating earthquake. CWON Australia was on the ground there within 72 hours to assist our Nepali friends to get aid to some badly affected villages. During this incredibly difficult time and in between the hundreds of aftershocks we wept with families who had lost everything and sweated together as we helped to rebuild. We also shared spicy meals, laughter, stories and hope. The sheer resilience of the Nepal...i people was never more evident than during this time. It was a privilege to have received $17,000 AUD in donations and help it be converted into food and shelter for people who had lost close to everything. NEPAL = Never Ending Peace and Love See more

15.01.2022 Did you know- CWON runs a family sponsorship program. Contact us for details. [email protected]

14.01.2022 It’s been two weeks since our Midwifery Students went to Nepal and following their visit to the Chepang Hills they have visited a village alongside the Chepang ...National Park, Pandamnagar. Here they stayed in mud huts for a night and ran a two-day maternal health program and antenatal clinic with women from Moving Monkey area and the local area. Their days are busy and the evening full of song and dance as they all ate and stayed in the same area. In the village, we met a traditional birth worker and her mother, who trained her and had been a traditional birth worker since she was 18yrs old! Lecturer Hazel Keedle was able to source birth kits to provide to each pregnant woman who attended the clinic. The group has had a couple of rest days due to the weather and encountering a monsoon and have spent the weekend visiting. On Saturday, they visited Bharatpur Hospital for a tour with Dr Sri. It was a very enlightening and humbling visiting this busy main public hospital. Alanna Robson, one of our student midwives then presented Dr Sri with a fetal Doppler as a donation, which was happily received. The group have also visited the Maulakalika Health Sciences Nursing College and met the Principal, Ms Veebha Thapa and her academic team which included Shila Neupane and Prativa Subedi who had been in the Chepang Hills with the group. During this visit, the group interacted with a classroom of first-year nursing students and then toured the college, including the library and midwifery practical room. The resourcefulness of the staff here is amazing. This week the group are busy holding another maternal health women’s training in a nearby village of Chepang women that don’t live in the hills. It has been incredibly hot, and it has been a challenge to get through the day holding our training in a brick building with no windows. So far our BMid students have been very adaptable in the extraordinary conditions and are learning from the many women they have met so far during this experience.

08.01.2022 Our Midwifery students have been in Nepal for a week so here is an update on what they have been up to. They have visited the Chepang Hills to do a women’s prog...ramme. This did mean hiking up into the hills in the very hot weather but the group embraced it as a team and a once in a lifetime opportunity. Being up in the Chepang Hills has been amazing, the group stayed in the local school; sleeping 13 women in one room on thin mats and it was a bonding exercise like no other! The group ran a 2-day maternity program with the help of two amazing Nepalese midwives. The first day was about the students finding out about the women by asking questions to see what they wanted and needed to know and learnt about their stories and their pregnancy and birthing practices. Midwifery Lecturer Hazel Keedle, Shila (Nepalese MW) along with our midwifery students ran an antenatal clinic for 8 pregnant women that attended the day (and a few that arrived the next day after hearing about it). On the second day, the students ran a 2-hour education session and did a wonderful role play that had the women laughing and learning. Keshav & Raj who are also travelling with the group did sessions for the women on finances and the workload differences between men and women where they also got some men involved to show them the inadequacies. The women work from 4am till 7pm and the men work for 1 hour a day! Slowly these sessions are making some changes to get men to help the women more. At the end of the visit, the group gave out the many Days for Girls kits as well as the clothing donations they took with them from Australia. Students also ran an impromptu gynae clinic at the end of the programme as we were approached by some women who wanted to be checked.