Happy Mother’s Day! It was a lot harder finding a mother related non-profit organization to feature today than I thought it would be, but luckily I came a cross the Family Health and Birth Center in Washington, DC. They are “a full scope birth center providing prenatal, birth, postnatal, gynecological and primary health care to women and their families,” and since what they do is all about motherhood, they’re a perfect fit for today. The reason that the Family Health and Birth Center exists is that there are often high rates of infant and maternal mortality in low-income areas. That is unacceptable for a country as advanced as the United States, so Ruth Watson Lubic, “an experienced nurse-midwife and health care reform advocate,” decided to do something about it.
We, as children, often forget how dangerous and difficult it can be for our mothers to bring us into the world. Luckily, there are organizations like Family Health and Birth Center that can make it safer. They offer a wide array of services that can help women in the DC area not only become mothers safely, but also start on their way to being good mothers. If you’d like to consider an internship at Family Health and Birth Center, you’ll find that they have just the opportunity for you – a Birth Center Health Disparities Reduction Internship posted on Idealist. They also generally have a call for interns on their internships and volunteer opportunities page. The internship appears to be paid, and you can apply by sending a resume and customized cover letter to Madeleine Beebe at Madeleine.birth@gmail.com.
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