(23 February to 5 March)
Project Life had our first 10 Days Of Activism campaign and what great feedback we have had!
During this time we had a radio advert play out on Radio CCFM 107.5, challenging people to take just 10 minutes out of their day to make themselves, their community and church aware of the organizations and places of safety that can assist women in crisis pregnancy and organizations that support the pro-life, pro-family and pro-adoption movement.
It was also encouraged that people take the time to educate themselves on the process of adoption.
Information on baby safe locations and crisis pregnancy centres was also posted on the Project Life Facebook page so that people could use social media as a tool for awareness during this time.
On the 24th of February I had the great honor of speaking at the Mighty Womens conference and sharing about my own personal journey of why I started Project Life and why I am so passionate about preventing baby abandonment and preventing abortion.
My friend Erica (who is also on the board of Project Life and the web designer of the Project Life website) and I handed out some pamphlets at the conference to raise awareness on the location of the current baby safe boxes.
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| Handing out pamphlets at The Mighty Womens Conference |
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| Erica the lovely web designer! |
I also met with Cheryllyn Dudley, MP of ACDP about the laws surrounding baby abandonment and third trimester abortion and she gave me some advice on how to go about starting a petition. More details on that to follow and I am looking forward to having her represent the petition in parliament.
Pamphlets were left at libraries around Cape Town and a local abortion clinic even allowed me to leave a pile of pamphlets at their clinic.
On day 9 of the 10 Days of Activism I spoke at the Goodwood Baptist Church at a Ladies tea. We did hospital outreaches where we had a team of volunteers hand out "mommy and baby packs'' to the mothers in the maternity ward on both Sundays of the 10 Days Of Activism Campaign.
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| At the Goodwood Baptist Church |
We also handed out some pamphlets and posters to the nurses at the hospital to make the nurses aware of the locations of the baby safe boxes as nurses would be able to educate and inform women who may be at risk of abandoning their baby.
Nurses would be able to look out for signs that make a woman high risk for abandoning her baby- signs like drug abuse, the girl being very young or having no visitors or family during visiting hours, or asking questions about leaving the baby at the hospital.
We were so excited to find out that Karl Bremmer has agreed to not only put our posters and pamphlets up in the hospital, but have also decided to enlarge the posters we left with them and to then put them up in different wards of the hospital!
This amazing team of nurses in the maternity ward were so welcoming and supportive of our campaign.
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| Nurses at Karl Bremmer Hospital |
A huge thank you to the volunteers who volunteered at the hospital outreaches and a huge thank you to everyone who gave donations of nappies, baby clothes, toiletries and blankets for the "mommy baby packs'' that were handed out at the hospital outreaches.
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| Ladies tea at Goodwood Baptist Church |
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| Hospital outreach |
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| Pastor Louis Claassen and wife at Emmanuel Church |
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