Our Herold Embrace group is a community project initiated and supported by the Dutch Reformed Church congregation in Herold with the assistance of the local clinic and Department of Health. We are a group of 8 “older”moms who are trying to find ways to support pregnant and new moms in the Herold community. Without the assistance of the clinic nurses who visit the farms, this project would not be possible at all. They have been incredibly helpful and supportive in many ways – ranging from identifying moms who might need support, motivating them to participate, liaising with us in terms of logistics for the mom’s transport, providing encouragement, to expert babysitting on our mommy support day. At the moment we have 9 new moms who are participating. At first we tried to link up ‘mom-to-mom’ to develop one on one relationships, but we soon realized that because most of the moms live on farms, and because the numbers of new moms keep growing, regular mommy support days would work best. If long-term individual relationships develop as a result of these opportunities for interaction, we will celebrate it.
On this website we share a little of our project and activities.
On this website we share a little of our project and activities.