“I’d had three children of my own and now I was responsible for the antenatal care on a floating medical clinic”.

After losing over three litres of blood in the birth of her first child, it was clear, Kate Taylor was fortunate to be living in Australia and lucky to be alive. Five years later, this ‘stay-at-home’ mum felt it was time to ‘give back’.

“Can you access clean drinking water? Are you eating three meals a day? How far to the nearest health centre?” (they seemed like the kind of questions I ought to ask). With tears running down her face the young pregnant woman explained how her mother had died in childbirth - and the fear that she now felt for her own life and the life of her baby.

Moved by the obvious disparities and her inability to help, Kate returned to Adelaide, enrolled in University to become a midwife and convinced her university lecturer to help train traditional birth attendants. Since 2007 and with the help of hundreds of Australian maternal health specialists, Kate has delivered the Safe Arrivals training to over 4,000 midwives and doctors throughout Cambodia.

Today, she continues to work voluntarily as the founding director of The 2h Project, looking for further opportunities to positively impact maternal health outcomes around the world. Kate works clinically as a senior midwife and is a specialist lecturer with an Adelaide University, and as a result of the excellent maternal care ‘she’ received … she enjoys the love and support of her three grown up sons.

“I didn’t set out to start an organisation. I just wanted to help. There’s a lot of ordinary, everyday people out there who just want to make the world a better place”.

Our Purpose

To make maternal care excellent for every woman, no matter where she lives

Our Approach

The 2h Project began with an uncomplicated commitment to reach out and help, even if it was only for the benefit of one. It's where our grassroots approach comes from - with our supporters, as well as the people we're trying to help. And it's a value that remains at the core of who we are and how we act.

our focus

Connecting the best health professionals in Australia with the frontline of maternal care in developing countries
Growing the capacity of everyone involved to deliver better outcomes for mothers and their babies
Embedding excellence in maternal health practice, so that standards are maintained, performance improves, evidence is gathered and the disparity is reduced.