New courses Delft MaMa is organizing a series of Dutch language prevention courses for migrant women in Delft on planning your pregnancy, a healthy pregnancy, how does the Dutch medical and social system work if you are pregnant. Delft MaMa, Rode Kruis Delft (Red Cross) and Delft fire station are also collaborating to offer courses about safety in the home, 1st aid for children and babies from December 2009 to early 2010 thanks to our generous sponsors Fonds 1818 and Skanfonds.
Two years already!
Volunteers and members celebrated Delft MaMa's 2d anniversary with a group picture by Urban Pics and drinks and a piece of pie from the DOk café on Friday 2"rd of October. This picture will feature in an upcoming Family Matters issue (first national english speaking parentign magazine in The Netherlands).
Halloween
Delft MaMa children and parents partied in Halloween fashion last Saturday, 31st of October. A big thank you to the Wending community center for its hospitality and fantastic space. For pictures please visit www.dropshots.com/delftmama
International Culture & Leisure in Holland 2009/2010 Fair 
Delft MaMa volunteers running a booth at the International Culture & Leisure in Holland 2009/2010 Fair on September 20th Expat friendly social groups and businesses from the greater Hague area offered a lot of information to visitors about their events and services. For more information visit. http://www.feelathomeinthehague.com/site/Home
In the Media
Lucie Cunningham (founder) & Erika Valencia from DelftMama briefly interviewed by TV West news (Dutch local channel) about their participation to the Delftse beursvloer (exchange services and knowledge between Delft businesses and charities). The segment was telecasted through the evening news on 24 March. Watch the video.... (This interview appears after 6 mins. from the begining of the video) ---------------------------------------------
Through the lens
Board members Suchandana Roy (left) and Lucie (right) congratulate Secretary of the board Nushaba Mirzazade for her nomination as number 4 spot on the list of Delftse Roos prize for female volunteer of the year 2008. 
Treasurer Grace Akebe (left) and founder Lucie Cunningham at opening party of West International TV channel at the Kurhaus hotel in Scheveningen.
Calendar open daysPrimary schoolsMontessorischoolApril 8th morningchildren can start from age 2and start doing at age 34 year olds' activitiesJacoba van Beierenlaan 166
2613 JK Delft=====================  | | Picture from Joke Smit Prizeceremony on March 8th, 2009with Minister of Culture, Educationand Research Ronald PlasterkGulnara Auketayeva (center onthe photo) nominated Lucie Cunningham (left) for the prize.The theme this year was women's financial self sufficency so it was normal not to be among 6 finalistsmore pictures including of winnerat www.dropshots.com/delftmama |
Volunteer of the year!
Lucie Cunningham, founder of the Delft Mama was awarded as "the volunteer of the year 2007" in Delft ( Gouden Veer 2007) at the yearly volunteer party organized by Gemeente Delft and the volunteers bureau in Delft. More details of the event , photos and newspaper clips click here....
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Delft MaMa reaches out to the local international community and offers a helping hand to parents. Delft Maternity And Motherhood Assistance is a non-profit organization in its beginning phase. Delft MaMa promotes the well-being and integration of international mothers-to-be and mothers of young children (0 to 4 year-olds) in and around Delft, The Netherlands, We use education and advocacy to improve intercultural communication between individuals and between individuals and maternity care organizations. " We take care of Delft international mothers-to-be and new mothers so that they can take better care of their children and themselves." Visit our useful information section to find out about making the most of parenting in Delft. Use your curser to display submenus! You will find resources on prenatal and postnatal care, education and general healthcare. Under the "About us" tab you will also find a calendar with upcoming events in Delft and our organizations meetings. Delft MaMa celebrated its two years of existence in August 2009!Wilt u meer over Delft MaMa in het Nederlands weten? |
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Newsletter
We publish our newsletter on a quarterly basis. Keeping to four main themes of Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Our team has been working very hard on making this latest issue as pretty and interesting as our previous issues. As usual you will find personal stories, articles, interviews and tips from readers & from professionals. Please let
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Multicultural baby exhibition
| On Saturday November 8, 2008 council woman Lian Merkx opened our Multicultural Baby Festival at 2:00 PM at public library/art center DOK (Vesteplein 100, Delft). Mistress of ceremony El Batoul Zembib from Libby coaching, advice and training introduced a guest speaker from Indonesian museum Nusantara and several ladies who performed lullabies from different countries. This festival is organized by Delft MaMain a partnership between Gemeente Delft Project Stuurvrouwen, The Woman and Child Center of Delft (Vrouwkindcentrum) and non profit Kunztwerk. A cultural exhibition on the world traditions to celebrate the birth of a child and an art exhibition on the themes pregnancy and babies, families, mothers with babies lasted till December 1? 2008. The artwork about pregnancy and babies was displayed in glass cabinets close to the customer service counter and on the walls along the staircase. Posters were displayed on the stands across the elevators. |
World traditions on a child birth
It is interesting to learn how people celebrate the birth of a child in different parts of the world. As a multicultural organization we found some fascinating stories from our members on what they do in their own country at birth and also during babies' first years around. (These articles were collected for use in our multicultural baby festival).
Baby Informatie Beurs (Prenatal and postnatal care fair)
How to get there ( follow the map to Grotius College Juniusstraat 8) | On Saturday October 11, 2008 Delft MaMa organized a unique event from twelve noon till four o' clock at the Grotius College (Juniusstraat 8 location) in Delft. It was a multicultural baby information fair where all maternity related organizations in and around Delft were invited to run a booth to meet women who wish to become or were already pregnant or who are the mothers of a newborn. After the official opening performed by healthcare and integration council man Dick Rensen at 12:00, we introduced participating organizations. They had brochures and answered questions that you may have had about pregnancy care. childbirth, care for the baby and mother after the birth and baby care. In other rooms, interactive workshops were run to familiarize yourself with the Dutch system. This event was created for women who were new to the greater Delft area or to The Netherlands but is open to all interested, Dutch and non Dutch. Most activities were run in Dutch, a few in English. Entrance was free, so were activities (see photo album; enter delftmama as password and click on all to view pictures).
We would like to thank our financial sponsors Gemeente Delft, Fonds 1818 and Skanfonds. Without their help we could not have organized this event and let it be free for our visitors. A big thank you to maternity, baby and children stores www.piekaaboe.nl and www.hetkindermagazijn.nl for their generous gifts to visitors at the fair! |
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