About Us

Mothers of the Holy Land is a registered not-for-profit humanitarian organisation dedicated to improving maternal and neonatal health outcomes in occupied Palestine.

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Organisation

Mothers of the Holy Land was established by Reem Najjar, an Australian midwife of Palestinian heritage. Reem is a deeply passionate midwife who wants to enhance birthing rights for mothers across Palestine, along with helping women and babies in need. After visting Palestine for a humanitarian aid mission in 2015, Reem experienced the huge and devastating impact the Israeli occupation is having on the way women access midwifery care. Due to Israeli checkpoints that separate cities and villages, women are facing endless challenges and complications trying to reach their health care providers. This often results in poor or life threatening outcomes for both mothers and babies that could have easily been prevented.

Funds Raised

Funds raised will go towards; mothers struggling to access health care, mother-baby packs, medical equipment needed to accommodate the community, disadvantaged families and orphans in need of food, clothing and shelter.

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Mother-Baby packs are distributed in both hospital and community settings including refugee camps and remote villages. Packs include baby clothing, hygiene products, multi-vitamins, blankets.  Baby formula and medications are also given to mothers and babies in need.

Fetal and Maternal monitoring plays a very important role in ensuring safe outcomes for both mothers and babies, for this reason, one of our main goals is to donate monitors to all governmental hospitals throughout the West Bank. The technical specifications of the monitors include; fetal heart rate, fetal movement, TOCO, ECG, blood pressure, heart rate, oxygen saturation, thermometer (further details included below pics). We also aim to donate other life-saving medical equipment such adult and neonatal resuscitation trolleys and neonatal incubators. 

During the blessed month of Ramadan, our team distributes food packs, meat packs and food vouchers to those most in need. They include the poor, sick, widowed, orphans and many more. Food packs are distributed in remote villages and refugee camps across the West Bank which are sadly ridden with extreme poverty. We have also distributed food vouchers in hospitals. Many more photos can be found on our FB page.

The Prophet Muhammad (SAW) said, “The one who cares for an Orphan and myself will be together in paradise like this” (and he held his two fingers together to illustrate).

Donations

Donations can be made to:

Mothers of the Holy Land

Bank: Westpac Australia

BSB: 032710

Account No. 212995

International SWIFT: WPCAU2S

         

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