Community Support

When a child is diagnosed with a serious illness or injury, it impacts the whole family. Lives can be turned upside down. Ronald McDonald House® Charities Australia provides a range of programs to help families stay together and close to the care they need.

Medela is incredibly proud to be a Corporate Partner of Life’s Little Treasures Foundation. We are honoured that we are able to help the Foundation in the very valuable work it does to support the families of premature and sick babies.

St Kilda Mums is a volunteer-powered charity that supports families in need in partnership with social workers. St Kilda Mums’ volunteers clean, sort, pack, repair and safety-check a large variety of essential nursery equipment. In 2016, St Kilda Mums provided nursery essentials to 7,383 families in Melbourne, Geelong via Geelong Mums and in Ballarat via Eureka Mums. This represented a $4.4 million saving for Victorian social services.

WIRF is Western Australia's leading community-based research organisation dedicated to the fields of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Newborn Medicine.

The Humpty Dumpty Foundation is a children’s charity that, for more than 27 years, has been purchasing essential life-saving medical equipment for sick and injured children in Paediatric Wards, Neonatal Units, Maternity and Emergency Departments in hospitals across Australia.

The Nappy Collective - a collaborative community initiative run by volunteers - started as a group of mums who found a handful of nappies that their toddlers did not fit into anymore. After considering the options of what to do with only six nappies...

In celebration of Breastfeeding Awareness Week, Medela and Baby Bunting are proud to support the McGrath Foundation by donating $10 from every Medela electric breastpump purchased at Baby Bunting to the McGrath Foundation during the 6th - 19th August.