We are Birth Sisters of Charlottesville, and we are launching a radical movement to protect, uplift, and honor the birth journeys of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color in our community.

We stand at the sacred beginning. At 0 centimeters, full of hope and divine potential. We invoke the energy of the Adinkra symbol Nsoromma—the "Child of the Heavens"—to guide us. It represents a mother’s faith and the divine promise that what we nurture together will rise.

With each centimeter we dilate, we will invoke a new cultural symbol, drawing strength and wisdom from the diverse lineages of the families we serve. This journey is our prayer, our promise, and our collective push toward justice.

But we cannot do this alone. We need your help to Protect the P.U.S.H.

P.U.S.H. is our call to action, our mission, and our promise:

• P – Provide compassionate, culturally rooted, trauma-informed doula care.
• U – Uplift the voices, autonomy, resilience, and power of mothers of color.
• S – Sustain revolutionary change through systemic advocacy.
• H – Honor sacred beginnings, ancestral legacies, and cultural birth practices.

Our goal is to raise $300,000. This vital funding will allow us to:

• Offer sliding-scale and no-cost doula services to families who need them most.
• Train and support more community-based BIPOC doulas.
• Expand our advocacy work to dismantle systemic maternal health disparities.
• Ensure that every family we serve experiences dignity at every dilation—from the first contraction to the final push and beyond.

Our Impact: Rooted in Community, Proven by Results

Since our incorporation in 2020, our work has been driven by a single goal: to ensure every BIPOC family in our community experiences pregnancy, birth, and postpartum with safety, dignity, and joy. The support of donors like you has made this impact possible:

• Provided compassionate, full-spectrum perinatal support to over 150 BIPOC families, and touched much more through community education and outreach programs.
• Celebrated overwhelmingly positive outcomes, including zero maternal losses among our clients. We have also navigated pregnancy and infant loss with families, providing sacred grief and bereavement doula support. The outcomes for our clients stand as a powerful testament to the model of community-based, culturally congruent care.
• Facilitated over 100 visits to our Welcome Womb Boutique, providing free essential pregnancy, postpartum, and infant items to mothers in need.
• Invested in our community's future by funding doula training for over 44 BIPOC women, creating a pipeline of compassionate care providers. We are incredibly proud that 7 of these trainees are now Virginia State Certified Doulas, expanding access to trusted, culturally-rooted care across our region.

Your donation doesn't just support a program—it sustains a proven ecosystem of care that is actively changing outcomes and rewriting narratives for BIPOC families.

Follow our journey. This cervical dilation tracker is our progress bar. Each centimeter we dilate represents $30,000 raised and brings us closer to a world where every birth is protected, every mother is empowered, and every beginning is honored.

Join us. Donate today and help us Protect the P.U.S.H.

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Protect the P.U.S.H.!

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