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Mississippi and New Orleans after the Storm
Thanks to the tenacity of the local communities, your concern and commitment and generous support by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, a new vision is being actualized for our babies and their families.
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Introducing STAR.Health Birthing Project:
Footsteps to Freedom
The 100th stop on the Underground Railroad for New Life!
“I have heard the stories and I have seen the
struggles of our black women here including
my own kin. So many of us feel hopeless.
The ideals of the Birthing Project and saving
our own selves appeal to my heart and soul.
We are a poor people here, but we know how
to be poor. What we struggle with is how to
overcome our obstacles. There are people in
our community who are very knowledgeable
about how to change, and I like the idea of
provoking them to help their sister.”
-Alice Rogers-Johnson,
Local Coordinator
Alice Rogers-Johnson
STAR.Health Footsteps to Freedom team
The slogan,
"FOOTSTEPS TO
FREEDOM" came from
an old slave map. It was
a depiction of the
footsteps foreparents
took to get to freedom…”
Little Sisters Padgit Williamson, Elmer Johnson,
Dominique Toney, and Jasmine Griffin with
Birthing Project founder Kathryn Hall-Trujillo.
“…our community
has to first take baby steps, then individual steps and help our women to see what is
hidden in plain sight, so that they can know what steps to
take just like the slaves had to do to escape their way of
life and move on
toward freedom.”
Arkansas Department of Health Maternal and Child
Health Southeast Region and Central Region Jan Turner,
PaKent Care Manager, Southeast Region Kathryn Hall-
Trujillo, Founder, Birthing Project, USA Dena Poteet,
Regional Manager, Southeast Region Zenobia Harris,
State Coordinator, Birthing Project
STAR.Health Birthing Project is the newest chapter of a
12-year-long history of Birthing Projects in Arkansas.
For More Information on Birthing Projects in Arkansas,
Contact:
Zenobia Harris, MPH, RNP, PhD. State Coordinator
PO Box 30824
Little Rock, AR 72260
Phone:
501-680-3072
Grant County Birthing Project Vivian Purifoy
Local Coordinator Grant County
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Grant County Vivian Purifoy |
Longley Baptist Church Bobbie Ficklin |
STAR.Health Ruby Johnson |
MALAWI CORN PROJECT
Last year mothers in a village in Malawi went to a meeting about preschool for their children. Lunch was donated but the women decided that next year they wanted to provide their own food. They approached the village chief and he gave them 2 acres to plant and with fifty dollars, they bought seeds and planted. Birthing Project monetary donations have provided more seeds for this sustainable agriculture project. Birthing Project USA is proud of these mothers who have taken their future into their own hands.
Lois Silo, Malawi Birthing Project Director
Kim Parris-Perkins, ED
FORT WORTH - DALLAS BIRTHING PROJECT
Join us in saying “Job Well Done” to Fort Worth-Dallas Birthing Project. Under the leadership of Kim Parish Perkins, they served their community for 12 years.
Thank you!
Kim Parish Perkins
Executive Director
Oldest Birthing Project kids welcome youngest member
