Some great South African sites worth visiting

Birthing in Awareness ~ We are motherhood mentors and alternative healers honouring the age-old tradition of women supporting women in various rites of passage through life. We hold regular workshops and courses for Doula trainees, mothers and partners. We provide Breastfeeding facilitation, Doula support, Reiki energy work, Therapeutic massage with essential oils and Mentoring in the Birthing from Within philosophy of mindful awareness into motherhood.

Bosom Buddies is a non-profit Christian organisation that services a local state hospital providing nappy-bags with clothing, blankets and products for the newborn as well as hygiene products for the mother. We personally deliver the bags to each mom and spend one-on-one time with each baby and mother. By doing this we ensure that no baby goes home without being adequately clothed and each mom feels that their community do care and the birth is recognized and celebrated. We ensure the mothers of premature infants who are involved in kangacare, have access to free tea & coffee supplies as well as a few food basics. We also try to make their room more homely by providing books and games, literature and laundry facilities.

Earthbabies ~ Earth Babies is a South African venture set up to support mothers and babies.Earth Babies is a home run business. It was created to help inform and support parents seeking a more natural approach to birth and parenting.

Mother Nature Products ~ Shaped cloth nappies inspired by nature.

Natural Living Family Blog ~ The natural parenting place... Collection of articles by Annie Austin on Natural and Attachment parenting.

Pestalozzi Trust ~ Legal defence fund for home education.

South African Breastmilk Reserve ~ SABR is an association registered under Section 21 of the Companies Act. SABR sees as its partners, the mother bank “iThembaLethu Breastmilk Bank” in Durban, iThembaLethu Human Milk Bank (Cape Town).
All three banks have been indorsed and partially sponsored by UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund). Other donors include Nampak, Clover, the Bersheba Foundation and Pixeljuice.

Part of being a parent is ensuring that your children get the best education that you can give them. For some it means private schools, others may prefer a Christian school, but in South Africa there is a huge growing community of homeschoolers. www.south-african-homeschool-curriculum.com helps this community to raise their children according to Godly standards, get organized in your home, develop long lasting relationships with knowledge and offers you a wonderful literature based curriculum, Footprints On Our Land, to use with your children. Footprints On Our Land gives you a magnificent arm chair journey through South Africa and its history, stopping to discover the geography and people of this land. There are three programs - Little Footprints (Ages 4 -8), South Africa's Heritage (Ages 7 - 12) and Footprints into the 21st Century (Ages 12 - 16). Shirley and Wendy, owners of www.south-african-homeschool-curriculum.com , also have a FREE monthly encouragement E-zine for homeschool families. Be sure to visit.

St Aiden's South Africa - Home education and activities ~ Here you will be able to access the best international resources on the net and for a typically South African flavour, we will be adding age-appropriate printables, worksheets, thematic units. You will also find units in isiZulu, Afrikaans, Hindi, Sotho & other major language