One of our favorite inspirational sites is chooselovemore.com. Their mission is simply “to spark a change in the way we think, inspiring each and everyone one of us to bring more love, peace, and joy into our day to day lives.” Perfect right? Lovemore has vowed to donate a share of their profits to organizations that embody their mission and Earth Birth fits that mission to a tee.
The co-founder of Earth Birth is Rachel Zaslow, a midwife from Brooklyn, New York. What exactly is Earth Birth?
Earth Birth is run by midwives to foster an international women’s health movement that encourages and promotes safe and peaceful birth as an act of social justice and community healing. They offer a holistic approach to women’s health care that is both community centered and internationally connected. They build clinics and community centers and offer trainings for Traditional Birth Attendants and Educators. Their goals include community sustainability, lowered maternal and infant mortality rate, lowered mother to child HIV transmission, access to supplies, access to trauma counseling, the ability to articulate ones story and the facilitation of positive and empowered child birth experiences.
Rachel was featured in a interview on GRITtv that can be seen here. You may notice that Zaslow was wearing a Lovemore shirt during her interview. For every single t-shirt, hoodie, onesie, bag or bottle that is purchased from Lovemore, a portion of the profits will be donated to Earth Birth. Do yourself a favor and take it little time to see how these women are making a difference in the world.
Bitten and Bound has featured Andrea Crossman and her sister Angela Crossman in an earlier posting.