Barbara May Foundation

08/10/2025

Look what’s arrived in Uganda…🎉

It might not look like much yet, but this shipment container is full of donated equipment for use in the new hospital in northern Uganda! The equipment includes ultrasounds, oxygen supplies, monitors, theatre tables and much more... 🤩

We are grateful to Sonic Healthcare Foundation who not only donated much of the equipment, but also handled the packing, shipping and all the logistics involved in collecting and sending the equipment.

Te-Kworo Foundation

05/10/2025

We’re pleased to welcome Tania to the BMF team here in Australia! She’ll be the new face behind our office phone number and email address, so if you’re in touch make sure to give her a warm welcome 😄

https://barbaramayfoundation.com/contact/

02/10/2025

Thanks to everyone who came to our event in Brisbane recently! It was wonderful to meet both long-term and new supporters.

If you missed out this time, make sure you’re signed up to our newsletter to hear about our next event (hint – we’re planning something special for November!)

https://barbaramayfoundation.com/events/

27/09/2025

Melkam Meskel!

Today our friends, colleagues, and communities in Ethiopia are celebrating Meskel — one of the country’s most important religious festivals. There will be colourful processions, traditional music, and the lighting of a large bonfire known as the 'demera'.

To our Ethiopian staff and partners, we wish you a joyful and blessed Meskel. And to our supporters here in Australia, thank you for partnering with us to continue the important work supporting women in Ethiopia to give birth safely.

17/09/2025

A huge congratulations to Alphonce Simbu for winning a historical first GOLD for Tanzania in the World Athletics Championships this week!

Last year Simbu ran in the Maternity Africa (our partner hospital) Fistula Marathon! We are all so happy for Simbu and for Tanzania!

Watch the winning moment here:

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11/09/2025

Today is Ethiopian New Year (Enkutash in Amharic). It’s an important day spent with family and friends, enjoying traditional cultural foods and coffee.

We want to wish all our colleagues, friends and patients in Ethiopia Melkam Addis Amet - a very Happy New Year!

06/09/2025

Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there in our community!

Your support not only makes a difference for women and babies in East Africa, but for their families - their husbands and dads too 🥰

We wish you all a day filled with joy, good food, and, of course, family.

05/09/2025

Women like Anyang, living with fistula, have been hidden for too long. This Women’s Health Week, help bring their stories into the light.

With your help, we will continue restoring the dignity of women like Anyang.

Give a gift today: https://barbaramayfoundation.com/her-dignity-fund

04/09/2025

Emergency surgery can save mums’ and babies’ lives. If you’ve been in this situation, you’ll know how vulnerable you are in that moment – and how much it matters to have skilled care providers alongside you.

For many mothers in East Africa, emergency care is often out of reach.

This Women’s Health Week, help us raise awareness of the need for safe, accessible maternal healthcare for all women.

👇Share your story in the comments below, or share ours to help us spread the word!

02/09/2025

Hands up if you’re grateful for skilled obstetricians, midwives, nurses, physios and gynaecologists? Or for being able to give birth in a hospital?🙋‍♀️

Women all over the world experience difficulties in childbirth. BUT not every mother has access to a hospital or skilled birth attendants. Not everyone gets professional help to deliver and recover.

Have you ever wondered what happens next?

Find out through the eyes of Hilda, a woman living in Tanzania, who leaked urine for ten years after getting into obstructed labour: https://barbaramayfoundation.com/stories/restoring-hildas-dignity/

01/09/2025

It’s Women’s Health Week 🧡

Childbirth is one of the most important times in a woman’s life. It should be safe – yet every day, over 700 women die giving birth, and many more suffer preventable injuries like obstetric fistula.

Most deaths and injuries CAN be prevented. That’s why the work you make possible through our partner hospitals and fistula camps is so important.

👉 Help us spread the word by sharing and commenting our posts this Women’s Health Week.

Find out more: https://barbaramayfoundation.com/ (Link in bio)

31/08/2025

Less than 3 weeks to go! Thursday 18th Sep. Are you coming? 🤩

We’re excited to be visiting Brisbane in September for the first time in a number of years. We hope to see many of our QLD supporters there!

If you’re in Brisbane, please invite your friends and family, churches, and colleagues – we're hoping to meet many new faces and spread the word about the importance of healing and preventing obstetric fistulas.

P.S Link in bio for tickets!