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One-Woman Show Kicks Off Breastfeeding Collaborative

May 27, 2014 by Marnie Cooper Priest, Former Project Director for the Breastfeeding Collaborative

The Partners in Health and Wholeness Breastfeeding Collaborative kicks off with a performance by Anita Woodley of her one-woman show, “Mama Juggs.”

Woodley is a nationally renowned local performer and former producer of WUNC-FM’s “The Story.” Her show about breastfeeding and the health of women and children is a fiercely funny, powerful experience that incorporates true stories about real women. Woodley works constantly in the community tackling food insecurities and health disparities in a non-traditional, theatrical way by creating programming through the nonprofit projects she’s co-founded: Grocers on Wheels and Raindownus.org. Learn more about her on her website.

The Breastfeeding Collaborative is a project of Partners in Health and Wholeness, an initiative of the NC Council of Churches. The Collaborative helps Wake County congregations to be breastfeeding-friendly by providing support, resources and mini-grants for creating comfortable spaces for women to breastfeed.

The event is free and open to the public. It takes place at 3 p.m. on Sunday, June 22, at Martin Street Baptist Church, 1001 E Martin Street in Raleigh and is co-sponsored by Partners in Health and Wholeness, the NC Council of Churches and the Martin Street Baptist Health and Wellness Ministry. Refreshments will be served and a Q & A will follow.

Photo credit: Leah Clark

 

 

Filed Under: Blog, Homepage Featured Tagged With: Children & Youth, Food, Health

About Marnie Cooper Priest, Former Project Director for the Breastfeeding Collaborative

Marnie works to educate low-resource congregations in Wake County about the benefits of breastfeeding and to provide those congregations with resources to create breastfeeding-friendly spaces for new mothers. In her spare time, Marnie enjoys her family, photography, dance and the great outdoors.

Learn more about Partners in Health & Wholeness: healthandwholeness.org

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