I am writing on behalf of our group “Sadabe” (a Montreal-based NGO), to request your donation of equipment for our first cooperative women’s health workshop to be held in Madagascar with our sister organization “Taratra Reny sy Zaza” in September 2010. Sadabe’s goals are to promote a better and more effective coexistence for Madagascar’s humans and its wildlife, and to improve the education and health of the local Malagasy people in the region.
We have received grant money to host the workshop, but as our site is extremely remote and without running water/electricity, we are in need of a few specific “camping” items to succeed in our mission, and we were hoping you might be interested in supporting our cause and donating new or used equipment.
We plan to donate five “Midwife” kits with medical equipment, but are in need of five LED headlamps to help when delivering babies (as this region has no electricity), five digital watches (to help time contractions) and five small backpacks to hold the equipment. Since this region is within the rainforest and most of our midwives also have no raingear, we are also requesting five raincoats/suits to help them as they hike through the forest to attend births. Read more about Sadabe
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