The Center for Community Health & Well-Being, Inc.
home of
Birthing Project USA:
"The Underground Railroad for New Life"
An International Organization & Resource Center for improving birth outcomes for women of color.
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the News The Birthing Project, The Birthing Project now has three e-mail based groups that will allow members, staff, participants and supporters to connect from any location! JOIN IN!
The Underground Railroad for New Life on the Move... Stop # 75 Nashville, TN Stop #76 Milwaukee, WI Stop #77 Limon, Honduras Stop # 78 Jackson, MS Stop #79 Sumner, MS Stop #80 Anguillla, MS Stop #81 Tallahatchie, MS Stop #82 Sunflower, MI Stop #83 Cleveland, OH Stop #84 New Orleans, LA Stop #85 Ciroboya Honduras, Central America Stop # 86 Tocamacho, Honduras, Central America Stop #87 Racine, WI Stop # 88 Tupelo, MS Stop #89 Columbia, SC Stop #90 Paramus, NJ The Birthing Project now has three e-mail based groups that will allow members, staff, participants and supporters to connect from any location! JOIN IN!
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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 doctor 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: November 22 thru 29, 2008 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 888-657-9790. Check Out Our Honduras Photo Gallery Garifuna Eye: The People, Sunsets and Landscapes of Hounduras
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