by Comms & Outreach | Dec 13, 2023 | Uncategorized
The KCMO Doula Initiative will provide direct doula service to Kansas City residents allowing them to choose from the network of doulas available through Uzazi Village. These trained professionals will offer emotional, physical, and informational support to pregnant...
by Comms & Outreach | Sep 29, 2023 | Uncategorized
VOICE FOR EVERYONE | Share your voice with KSHB 41’s Rachel Henderson Uzazi Village, a Kansas City-based nonprofit aimed at providing community-based maternal care, is hosting its ninth annual Black Infant Mortality Awareness Walk on Saturday. “We really just want to...
by Comms & Outreach | Sep 27, 2023 | Uncategorized
For the last 5 years, Black documentary filmmaker Emmett Williams has been producing a project titled SISTER DOULA, a one-hour documentary about Black infant and maternal health in America. SISTER DOULA is the story of Hakima Payne, a nurse in Kansas City who tackles...
by Comms & Outreach | Sep 27, 2023 | Uncategorized
Announcing our next speaker for our Sept. 29 maternal health workshop, Hakima Payne! Hakima Tafunzi Payne is the founder and Executive Director of Uzazi Village, a nonprofit dedicated to eliminating disparities in maternal and infant health in African American...
by Comms & Outreach | Aug 18, 2023 | Uncategorized
Hakima Payne founded Uzazi Village, a nonprofit that trains doulas and focuses on reducing birth inequities for Black mothers and infants in Kansas City. BY ANNA SPOERRE| JILL TOYOSHIBA Editor’s note: During the month of February, in honor of Black History Month and...
by uzazi | Aug 8, 2023 | Uncategorized
A Mother’s Story It was a sweltering summer day when Izula Jade, who was about six weeks pregnant, felt sick. This nausea and pain were familiar, like the two ectopic pregnancies she’d had before, wherein she lost her babies. So she sought help from...
