Our mission
The Mola Foundation was established in 2022 to enhance capabilities to help encourage supervised births. We educate and create incentives to promote mothers and their families to opt for a supervised births.
Meet our Founder
Glen Mola is a Papua New Guinean Doctor with 55 years service experience. He is currently the Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Papua New Guinea. As a specialist in women health and newborn care, Glen set up the Mola Foundation.
To date, the Mola Foundation has sponsored upskilling training for rural based community nurses to capacitate them to be able to provide quality maternal and newborn care in 14 of PNG’s 22 provinces.
Mola Foundation supports incentivisation of supervised births in rural health centres in Rural Health Centres in Milne Bay (2012 in collaboration with Dr Barry Kirby’s THOR Foundation), Simbu (2019, 18 rural health facilities), EHP (2023, 4 rural health facilities) and ENGA (2023, two rural health facilities).
Glen has led the establishment of support programs to provide baby bundles for families and food rations for mothers who come to their local rural health centres for supervised birth. The Mola Foundation is also involved in renovating rural health facilities to make sure they have running water, toilets and light in the birthing area. For the future, we hope to extend our services to other provinces so all of PNG can benefit from life saving supervised births.
Our donor partners
UK philanthropic trust (ODF): donated 250,000 pound sterling over 3 years (2025-2027).
Curraghadene Foundation (Australia): provided AUD 40,000 each year for 3 years to pay the remuneration package of our Project Manager who is a resident in the Simbu province.
PNG Kumul Petroleum Foundation: provided funding support of K1.5m over 3 years, from 2024-2026.
Mola Foundation Endowment (Australia): philanthropic trust established with Perpetual Ltd in Melbourne, all proceeds of the trust are sent to PNG to train health workers and provide incentives in rural areas.