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Nyoka Smith

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May 27

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Care doesn’t always happen in one place. Sometimes, it travels.

In Pretoria, South Africa, Happy Mama Healthy Baby Africa Alliance is supporting families through birth by going directly to local clinics, meeting people where they are.

Led by

Here’s what transforming care actually looks like.

At Global Doula Project, our mission is more than words.

We strengthen community care systems by resourcing doula organizations, investing in future doulas through scholarships, and educatin

Support at the end of life is not new.

Across cultures and generations, communities have long held one another through death and dying …through presence, ritual, and care.

The role of the death doula continues this tradition today.

Death do

What does a death doula actually do?

Before the final days arrive, there are conversations that bring peace.

Wills.
Medical proxies.
Power of attorney.
Where someone wants to be.
How they want their space to feel.

By helping individuals put their

Loss changes us.

When someone we love is here, life has a certain rhythm, a certain color.
And when they’re gone, everything shifts.

Grief is NOT something to move past or solve.

It’s something we learn to live with slowly, and oft

Why does Global Doula Project exist?

We are on a mission to transform the way we experience birth and death by making doula support affordable and accessible to families around the world.

How we do this:
• Providing support grants to doula or

Global Doula Project is a non-profit organization on a mission to transform how we experience birth and death by making doula support affordable and accessible to families around the world.

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