Miya's Doula Fund
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Hello Community Members!
Thank you to everyone who has supported me this past month with growing my practice as a doula in my hometown of Washington, DC. Because of your donations, I was able to attend Tracy Osborne's Rebozo workshop in Chantilly, VA on June 21st.
I still need to raise the remaining $1,625.00 by August 7th to cover the estimated registration, travel and lodging costs to Karen Strange's Neonatal Resuscitation and Transitions workshop in Statesville, NC on August 23, 2014 and the International Center for Traditional Childbearing's Full Circle Doula Training in Baltimore, MD on August 28-31, 2014.
These trainings would build my skills as a doula and allow me to continue to deliver quality, low-to-no cost doula services to DC's expecting families.
Currently, I am offering my services to pregnant and laboring women as a volunteer birth doula at the Family Health and Birth Center and am participating in Community of Hope's Strong Start Doula Program.
This is a community issue. High rates of infant mortality, preterm births, low-birth weight babies and cesarean sections disportionately affect African-American women in DC. I must answer this call to help ensure that pregnant and laboring people receive adequate informational, emotional and physical support during this key moment in life.
Please donate so that I may continue to build expertise as an informed, culturally competant and affordable birth worker.
Thank you for you time and supoort.
Much Love and Happy Birthing,
Miya Upshur-Williams
Thank you to everyone who has supported me this past month with growing my practice as a doula in my hometown of Washington, DC. Because of your donations, I was able to attend Tracy Osborne's Rebozo workshop in Chantilly, VA on June 21st.
I still need to raise the remaining $1,625.00 by August 7th to cover the estimated registration, travel and lodging costs to Karen Strange's Neonatal Resuscitation and Transitions workshop in Statesville, NC on August 23, 2014 and the International Center for Traditional Childbearing's Full Circle Doula Training in Baltimore, MD on August 28-31, 2014.
These trainings would build my skills as a doula and allow me to continue to deliver quality, low-to-no cost doula services to DC's expecting families.
Currently, I am offering my services to pregnant and laboring women as a volunteer birth doula at the Family Health and Birth Center and am participating in Community of Hope's Strong Start Doula Program.
This is a community issue. High rates of infant mortality, preterm births, low-birth weight babies and cesarean sections disportionately affect African-American women in DC. I must answer this call to help ensure that pregnant and laboring people receive adequate informational, emotional and physical support during this key moment in life.
Please donate so that I may continue to build expertise as an informed, culturally competant and affordable birth worker.
Thank you for you time and supoort.
Much Love and Happy Birthing,
Miya Upshur-Williams
Organizer
King Ma Willi Morris
Organizer
Mount Rainier, MD
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