Sister Friend Delegations

Medical Mission to Honduras - Garifuna Community Health

The Birthing Project is partnering with CHIMES (a California based, grassroots effort to build a clinic for the first Cuban trained Garifuna doctors to provide health care to the Garifuna community) and PINCC (a NGO providing cervical cancer diagnosis and treatment) to improve the health of the Garifuna women and their families.  The Garifunas are the descendents of the Africans who refused to be enslaved by the Spanish or to fight for the British.  We are supporting Garifuna midwives with supplies, medicines and continuing education.  In return, they will be sharing their traditional methods, including herbal medicines with us.  

The Honduras Birthing Project is bringing together midwives and community women to support women through their pregnancies and babies’ first year of life.  The delegation activities include: manual labor to build the clinic, providing or assisting with women’s health and self care (breast exams, etc.) massage therapy, distributing eye glasses, medicine and other items and teaching midwifery and doula care.  We are also looking for pediatric practioners.

Dates: TBA
Costs will be approximately $1200, inclusive of roundtrip airfare from the US,
lodging, food and ground transportation. 
Come with us to
Experience another way of practicing medicine and promoting community health.
 For more information or to apply:
 E-mail Kathryn Hall-Trujillo
at birthingproject@mail2world.com or call 951-214-1118.

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Mississippi and Louisiana After the Storm

We have not forgotten our sisters that were impacted by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. During the last year, The Birthing Project has made five trips to Gulf. Our intention has been to take necessary aide, ask how we could best be of service and to provide sisterly support during this challenging time.

What we found were strong sisters who are taking care of their communities. Just like the rest of us, they know what they want to do and they need resources, connection and support. The addition of The Birthing Project models will give them one more tool to do their work.

Our intention is to demonstrate a strong community partnership with areas that have been hardest hit by economic and social disparities before and after Hurricane Katrina.

And, most importantly, we want our sisters to know that they are not forgotten or abandoned by our commitment to participate in the building of their health and human services infrastructure.

Our quarterly Baby Showers remind our sisters in New Orleans that we are honoring our promise not to forget them.  We invite you to go with us, send a shower gift or consider being a SisterFriend to a new mother.

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