• Provide safe environments for women of color to bring forth life

• Address and cure Hyperemesis 

• Provide nutrition guidelines during and after pregnancy 

• Establish awareness and connections to Doulas

• Establish awareness and connections to traditionalMidwives 

• Erect birth centers 

• Advocate ensuring c-sections are highly scrutinized and only utilized in situations where there is a team of medical advisors that agree that there are no other alternatives.

• Provide support to fathers and families who have been impacted by maternal mortality.

 

Yolanda “Shiphrah” Kadima lost her life on 07/27/20 from complications from a routine cesarean section procedure that delivered her second set of girl and boy twins, thus with women of color being 18 times more likely to die in Georgia during childbirth or from ensuing complications than their counterparts, our mission is to promote and create safe birthing environments for women of color.  The foundation will further this mission by increasing the awareness of the unacceptable mortality rates of women of color from childbirth, advising expectant families on the pitfalls of the improper, inappropriate and negligent care of women of color by the medical profession, educating medical professionals on the risk factors that lead to these mortality rates, erecting natural birthing centers, connecting families to holistic birth workers such as doulas and traditional midwives and promoting and advancing the careers of natural and traditional birth workers.

 

As detailed in our mission statement, we will raise awareness of the unacceptable maternal mortality rates of women of color, especially black women or women of African descent.  We will do this by facilitating online and where appropriate, in-person discussion forums to address the urgency and the outcry to make a change and keep mothers from dying in hospitals to routine procedures.  So many families,

Including ours, are suffering and left destitute to the heinous acts of the medical profession.  We will also utilize all resources to establish educational and informative platforms to support mothers and their families in making well-informed safe birthing choices/decisions to prevent any more deaths.  We will do this by partnering with the black holistic birth workers communities to train and certify doulas and other natural birth professionals. Finally, we will launch informational campaigns to further the advocacy of the erection of birthing centers in black communities and to allow traditional midwives to legally practice in these birthing centers.  As an IBCLC, Doula and aspiring traditional midwife, Yolanda’s dream was to build a birthing center where mothers like her could experience safe and loving births, thus we also pave the way to bring a birthing center in her name to fruition.