New Year Gifts for Chitambo Mothers
4th Jan 2026
Happy New Year Everyone. Friends of Chitambo (FoCH) starts off on a happy note with these lovely photos from Chitambo partners. They show baby clothes, donated through FoCH, being distributed to mothers and mothers to be in the hospital and Mothers Waiting Shelter, as New Year Gifts.
Here is what Sister Ketra Mubita, Nursing Officer, said:
[1/3, 06:04] Sr Ketra Mubita: How we spent part of our New Year..gifting mothers with gifts you sent us. [1/3, 06:05] Sr Ketra Mubita: We parked them in baby layettes [1/3, 06:09] Sr Ketra Mubita: We also shared with paediatric ward and insaka yaba wesu [1/4, 18:10] Jo VALLIS: These were the baby clothes gifted from various sources including Dr Marion Taylor in New Zealand, and Drs Bridget Innes and Jo Vallis and in Scotland. The latter were provided by the main maternity unit in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Some of these were transported in a container provided by Padre John Mbayo, who recently facilitated the renovation of the hospital's paediatric ward. Padre Mbayo, who is Zambian by origin, is a Chaplain in the Royal Air Force in England.
