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Uma Shungo Family Resource Center

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*Donations will be used to cover midwifery supplies and birth kits, cover midwifery office space expenses, and allow us to provide donation-based prenatal and postpartum care.

UMA SHUNGO :

An Ecuadorian non-profit foundation dedicated to serving families and making quality healthcare more accessible to all people. Uma Shungo is a midwifery-run family resource center located outside of Quito Ecuador. The center weaves together modern medicine and ancient midwifery traditions. “Uma Shungo” is a common kichwa phrase that means, Heart-Mind Connection.

This family resource center aims to create community, improve maternal and infant health outcomes, and celebrate Ecuador's unique cultures and birth traditions. All midwifery services are donation-based so all women and their families regardless of socioeconomic status are supported throughout their fertile years, pregnancy, postpartum, and menopausal wise woman years. This center offers Ecuadorian families: childbirth education classes, sex education, yoga, prenatal care, nutrition courses, postpartum/lactation support, and baby check-up visits. Uma Shungo is a place that honors the unique indigenous midwifery customs and integrates medical trainings and tools to keep midwifery alive.

Mission Statement- Uniting Ecuadorian families and professional birth workers together to create thriving family systems by reducing mental, physical, and emotional trauma and radically improving infant and maternal health outcomes from pre-conception through the postpartum period.

Please check out our website at : www.umashungo.org

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Check out our website for more info: www.umashungo.org
IG: @uma_shungofoundation


Una fundación ecuatoriana sin fines de lucro dedicada a servir a las familias y mujeres que necesitan atención médica de calidad y de mejor accesibilidad para todo tipo de población.

Uma Shungo es un centro dirigido por parteras profesionales, que ofrecen información, asesoría y acompañamiento sobre gestación, parto, post parto y menopausia, a mujeres, parejas y familias.Está ubicado en las afueras de Quito, Ecuador.

Uno de sus propósitos es entrelazar la medicina moderna con el conocimiento y prácticas tradicionales de la partería.
“Uma Shungo” es una frase común en kichwa que significa Conexión entre “Corazón-Mente”.
Nuestro objetivo es crear más comunidad, mejorar los resultados de salud materna e infantil y celebrar las culturas y tradiciones del parto y nacimiento propias del Ecuador.

Todos los servicios de partería se basan en donaciones para que todas las mujeres y sus familias, independientemente de su nivel socioeconómico, reciban apoyo durante cada fase de su ciclo femenino como:Edad fértil, el embarazo, el posparto y los años de la mujer sabia en la menopausia.

Este centro ofrece a las familias ecuatorianas: clases de preparación para el parto, educación sexual, yoga, citas prenatales, talleres de nutrición, apoyo posparto, asesoría de lactancia, además visitas de control del bebé.
Uma Shungo es un lugar que honra las costumbres ancestrales, únicas de la partería e integra capacitaciones médicas y herramientas para mantener viva la partería.
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Donations 

  • Katlyn Matic
    • $500
    • 5 mos
  • Anonymous
    • $40
    • 5 mos
  • Ligaya Tichy
    • $40
    • 5 mos
  • brandon jaeger
    • $2,000
    • 5 mos
  • Angela Krepling
    • $60
    • 6 mos
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Santa Rosa, CA

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