A rally is planned from 10 a.m. to noon Monday at the Hilo Medical Center. The event is one of more than 100 planned nationwide for Improving Birth’s “National Rally for Change on Labor Day.” Rally for mothers and babies
Rally for mothers
and babies planned
for Labor Day in Hilo
A rally is planned from 10 a.m. to noon Monday at the Hilo Medical Center. The event is one of more than 100 planned nationwide for Improving Birth’s “National Rally for Change on Labor Day.”
Improving Birth aims to bring awareness to the lack of evidence-based maternity care in the U.S. According to the organization, “we are needlessly subjecting mothers and babies to major abdominal surgery, the long-term side effects that go along with that and the unnecessary risk of death for both.”
According to the group’s founder Dawn Thompson, the events are not a protest, but “a public awareness campaign to bring attention to the outdated practices that have been proven time and again to not be what is best for moms and babies.”
Visit improvingbirth.org for more information. Contact Breanna Cahoon at breannacahoon@gmail.com or (253) 576-6535 for more about the event in Hilo.
Read-aloud program slated at library
The Friends of the Libraries, Kona will host its Books are Building Blocks family read-aloud program from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Sept. 4 at the Kailua-Kona Public Library. During this school year, the group will be traveling around the world and making passports to use each month as the group explores the world through reading.
The program is offered on the first Tuesday of each month of the school year. Parents must attend the program with their children. There will be separate reading groups: kindergarten, grades 1 to 2, 3 to 4, 5 to 6 and their parents. Each group will have a person reading aloud to them, followed by a discussion of what was read.
Registration will take place from 4:30 to 5 p.m. in front of the library, program from 5 to 5:30 and reading by age group from 5:30 to 6. Afterward, families will meet on the lanai for light refreshments provided by Costco, door prizes and books. Participation is limited to 75 individuals.
Target has awarded the Friends a $2,000 grant for the 2012-13 school year. Its sponsorship helps the organization meet the needs of the community. To sponsor a program or to get more information, email FOLK@folkhawaii.com or visit folkhawaii.com.
