Yolanda Shiphrah Kadima Foundation
Take back your wellness.
We exist so that no Black mother is lost to a crisis that was never inevitable.
Welcome, family.
Wherever you are in your journey, whether you are a young woman learning to love your moon cycle, a mama preparing to birth, a father who wants to protect his family, or a family carrying loss, you belong here. We are glad you came.
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Why we are here.
Black women in the United States are three to four times more likely than other women to die from complications of pregnancy, birthing, or the weeks after. Black women were not failed by their bodies. They were failed by a system that never trusted those bodies. We are here to make it safe to carry, to birth, and to live.
Source: CDC National Center for Health Statistics, maternal mortality rates, 2023 and 2024.
Seven pillars, one promise.
Womb Wellness Education
From a girl's first moon cycle through birthing, postpartum, and beyond.
Community Doula Network
Doulas who walk with you through every season.
The Black Father Initiative
Equipping fathers to protect, notice, and speak up.
Maternal Safety and Advocacy
Know your rights, know what to ask, and be heard.
Nutrition and Nourishment
A nourished mother is a protected mother.
Ancestral Wisdom Restoration
The traditions our grandmothers knew, restored.
Grief, Loss, and Healing
Holding families, and especially children, after loss.
For your family, for your womb, for yourself, your babies: take back your wellness, be powerful, be strong, follow your intuition, trust the Creator, and keep moving forward.
Her work, unfinished.
Yolanda “Shiphrah” Kadima was a doula, lactation consultant, herbalist, and traditional midwife who helped birth more than sixty babies. In July 2020, four days after birthing her second set of twins, her sixth and seventh children, she passed at 35. Her husband Armand founded this foundation so her work would not end with her.
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