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World Bridge Project (WBP) is an International conscious movement that connects

visionaries; such as artists, musicians, midwives, healers, earth guardians and cine-

matographers.

Through visual, healing and musical art, we build a bridge to unify people, stories,

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We aim to unify with others that share the importance of individual participation

toward our collective experience here on Earth.

World Bridge Project

We envision, nurture and support a planet where all life thrives.

Senegal, AfricaOur intentions with the World Bridge Project in Senegal is to create a healthy cultural exchange through art, music, literature, and community engagement. With a team of talented, conscious and diverse artists, WBP aims to create works of art with communities in Dakar and other surround-ing villages to help build more awareness and solutions promoting the safest possible natural birth conditions in Senegal. WBP will also be hosting educational art workshops with the youth, as well as installing a solar-powered water pump in Cassamance. Once we have completed our goals and documented the experience in Senegal,

WBP will be present a group exhibition in December at Art Basel in Miami, -SVYPKH���;OL�L_OPIP[�^PSS�PUJS\KL�H�KVJ\TLU[HY`�ÄST��JHU]HZ�WYPU[Z�VM�[OL�murals, as well as artisan products created during our travels.

Through our Kickstarter campaign, WBP strive to support the African Birth Collective in their endeavor to publish and distribute Hesperion Health .\PKL�Z�*SHZZPJ�(�)VVR�MVY�4PK^P]LZ��PU�-YLUJO����;OPZ�IVVR�PZ�H�4PK-wifery Educational Manual and Reference Guide that will provide essential knowledge to a midwife in Africa helping to reduce mortalities by making birth safer. A portion of the proceeds made from the exhibit at Art Basel will also be donated to the African Birth Collective.

We want to show the world the importance of learning from each other and working together. We hope the World Bridge Project will inspire people to pay attention to the amazing collaborative work happening in Senegal through murals that depict the dedication, strength & beauty of it’s midwifery community and the people who support them".

How it Began

“By bridging art, music and birth, we build a foundation of expression and awareness to co-create a world that we all want to be a part of.”

Jennifer Ingram of Tribe13 has over 15 years of experience curating and organizing the logistics of art events, traveling shows, and galleries. Jenni-fer works to “mother” artists in all ways to help them promote their art.

After being involved in a budding art movement connected to the vision-ary realm of healing the planet, hitting countless events, and curating events all over the world, Jennifer Ingram decided to go back to her roots in midwifery and help one of the places she feels is her calling.

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In 2006, WBP Co-Founder, Jennifer Ingram was inspired to learn more about natural birth and served as a doula and midwife in training at a 24-birthing clinic in Sénégal, West Africa. She volunteer with the African Birth Collective and was sent to assist in Mbour - an African village of 10,000, where she assisted in delivering babies for nearly 4 weeks in some of the most extreme and challenging conditions. Approximately 6-8 babies were born a night, but there were also many mothers and babies who didn’t make it.

Realizing the importance that safe natural birthing had on the mothers, their families, and their communities, Jennifer believed that bringing in more support to provide better training for the midwives in emergency situations and better equipment would make a world of a difference. When she returned back to the US, Jennifer a long-term commitment to empower mothers, midwives and natural birth communities was born.

Jennifer Ingram

Meet the Artists: Amanda Sage Her work can be seen at the Phantasten Museum in Vienna Austria, a new museum for Fantastic & Visionary Art that opened in January 2011.

Amanda Sage is at the forefront of a new breed of visionary/in-terdimensional artists using art as a tool for personal, spiritual, planetary growth and transformation.

Sage was born in Denver, Colorado. Her life’s travels and projects bounced her between Bali, Indonesia and Vienna, Austria. While in Bali, Sage illustrated an herbal book with over 70 indigenous plants and herbs for the natural Birthing Clinic, now called Bumi Sehat.

She has exhibited Solo and in Group Shows in Galleries, Salons and in various projects/events worldwide since 1999, including London, Vienna, Munich, Berlin, Bali, Colorado, Seattle, San Francisco and most exotically at Burning Man.

Meet the Artists: Ras TermsRas Terms A.K.A. Terockatron is a Miami born visual artist of Latin descent inspired by the power of ancestral communication. He views art as a link between the ancient and the modern world.

His work has always contained spiritual and urban themes. With an uncanny ability to channel both the living and the dead through his work, Ras Terms’ art has been seen in museum settings, to Ethiopian churches, as well as on the streets.

Although a street artist by nature, Ras Terms has had the priviledge to exhibit at the prestigious Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C.

Meet the Artists: Rachel Mandala

Born with the talent of trans-dimensional time travel, Rachel Mandala fearlessly peers into the space between our lucid dreams and darkest secrets. Acknowledging her own free heart and intuition, she follows the winds bareback atop her savage brVU[VZH\Y\Z��Z\YÄUN�Mrom one pene-trating frequency to the next. Mandala once spent a lifetime battling post-apocalyptic roadkill, HYTLK�VUS`�^P[O�OLY�ÄULZZL�HUK�NVSKLU�SHaLY�PU[ro-spect-gun.

Rachel was educated in the arts from the King of the Gypsies on a small unnamed island off the coast of Guatemala during one of her many pixelated light wave excursions,

She now paints for the people, burning down our barriers of perception withblazing brushes and boot kicks straight to our mind’s eye.

Meet the Artists: AndreasOneExploring many mediums as he grew up in the rural hills of Northern California, AndreasOne has developed a unique art style that radiates eclectic experience.

After graduating college with a BA in Computer/Video Imaging and traveling to several continents, AndreasOne settled in Oakland, CA.

Since 2001, he has shown art and installations in galleries and various venues throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. Starting in 2006 he developed a reputation as a performance painter, creating live art at numerous festivals and events, including Earthdance, Lightning in a Bottle, Reggae on the River, Eclipse 2012(Australia), DeYoung Museum, and many more. AndreasOne currently runs his own clothing company P.E.A.C.E. Fits, a socially conscious art based fashion line.

Embracing visual and performing arts from a young age, he created sculpture, theatre sets, costumes, screen prints, posters and illustrations

Senegal, West Africa

Our intentions in Africa are to create a healthy cultural exchange through art, music, literature, and community engagement. From November 2013 through December 2013, the World Bridge Project will begin multiple creative initiatives in Sénégal, West Africa.

WBP co-founder Jennifer Ingram previously served as a doula and midwife in training in Sénégal - delivering babies for weeks at a time, and thus building a special bond with the community.

Returning to Sénégal with a team of diverse artists, we will nur-ture that bond and kindle new connections. First, we will co-cre-ate murals with with the people of Dakar and surrounding villag-es, as well as host painting workshops for youth in the streets.

Once we have made an artistic contribution, we will then install a solar powered water pump in Cassamance. Following our volun-teer service, we will print and distribute “A Book for Midwives”, a medical guide book translated for French speaking Africans.

Once we have completed our goals and documented the experi-ence, the results will be presented at a group exhibition during Art Basel in Miami, FL. The exhibit will include a documentary ÄST��JHU]HZ�WYPU[Z�VM�[OL�T\YHSZ��HZ�^LSS�HZ�HY[PZHU�Wroducts created during our travels. Proceeds frVT�[OL�L_OPIP[�^PSS�ILULÄ[�the African Birth Collective.

Senegal, West Africa

Our intentions in Africa are to create a healthy cultural exchange through art, music, literature, and community engagement. From November 2013 through December 2013, the World Bridge Project will begin multiple creative initiatives in Sénégal, West Africa.

WBP co-founder Jennifer Ingram previously served as a doula and midwife in training in Sénégal - delivering babies for weeks at a time, and thus building a special bond with the community.

Returning to Sénégal with a team of diverse artists, we will nur-ture that bond and kindle new connections. First, we will co-cre-ate murals with with the people of Dakar and surrounding villag-es, as well as host painting workshops for youth in the streets.

Once we have made an artistic contribution, we will then install a solar powered water pump in Cassamance. Following our volun-teer service, we will print and distribute “A Book for Midwives”, a medical guide book translated for French speaking Africans.

Once we have completed our goals and documented the experi-ence, the results will be presented at a group exhibition during Art Basel in Miami, FL. The exhibit will include a documentary ÄST��JHU]HZ�WYPU[Z�VM�[OL�T\YHSZ��HZ�^LSS�HZ�HY[PZHU�Wroducts created during our travels. Proceeds frVT�[OL�L_OPIP[�^PSS�ILULÄ[�the African Birth Collective.

Senegal, West Africa

Our intentions in Africa are to create a healthy cultural exchange through art, music, literature, and community engagement. From November 2013 through December 2013, the World Bridge Project will begin multiple creative initiatives in Sénégal, West Africa.

WBP co-founder Jennifer Ingram previously served as a doula and midwife in training in Sénégal - delivering babies for weeks at a time, and thus building a special bond with the community.

Returning to Sénégal with a team of diverse artists, we will nur-ture that bond and kindle new connections. First, we will co-cre-ate murals with with the people of Dakar and surrounding villag-es, as well as host painting workshops for youth in the streets.

Once we have made an artistic contribution, we will then install a solar powered water pump in Cassamance. Following our volun-teer service, we will print and distribute “A Book for Midwives”, a medical guide book translated for French speaking Africans.

Once we have completed our goals and documented the experi-ence, the results will be presented at a group exhibition during Art Basel in Miami, FL. The exhibit will include a documentary ÄST��JHU]HZ�WYPU[Z�VM�[OL�T\YHSZ��HZ�^LSS�HZ�HY[PZHU�Wroducts created during our travels. Proceeds frVT�[OL�L_OPIP[�^PSS�ILULÄ[�the African Birth Collective.

Senegal, West Africa

Our intentions in Africa are to create a healthy cultural exchange through art, music, literature, and community engagement. From November 2013 through December 2013, the World Bridge Project will begin multiple creative initiatives in Sénégal, West Africa.

WBP co-founder Jennifer Ingram previously served as a doula and midwife in training in Sénégal - delivering babies for weeks at a time, and thus building a special bond with the community.

Returning to Sénégal with a team of diverse artists, we will nur-ture that bond and kindle new connections. First, we will co-cre-ate murals with with the people of Dakar and surrounding villag-es, as well as host painting workshops for youth in the streets.

Once we have made an artistic contribution, we will then install a solar powered water pump in Cassamance. Following our volun-teer service, we will print and distribute “A Book for Midwives”, a medical guide book translated for French speaking Africans.

Once we have completed our goals and documented the experi-ence, the results will be presented at a group exhibition during Art Basel in Miami, FL. The exhibit will include a documentary ÄST��JHU]HZ�WYPU[Z�VM�[OL�T\YHSZ��HZ�^LSS�HZ�HY[PZHU�Wroducts created during our travels. Proceeds frVT�[OL�L_OPIP[�^PSS�ILULÄ[�the African Birth Collective.

Senegal, West Africa

Our intentions in Africa are to create a healthy cultural exchange through art, music, literature, and community engagement. From November 2013 through December 2013, the World Bridge Project will begin multiple creative initiatives in Sénégal, West Africa.

WBP co-founder Jennifer Ingram previously served as a doula and midwife in training in Sénégal - delivering babies for weeks at a time, and thus building a special bond with the community.

Returning to Sénégal with a team of diverse artists, we will nur-ture that bond and kindle new connections. First, we will co-cre-ate murals with with the people of Dakar and surrounding villag-es, as well as host painting workshops for youth in the streets.

Once we have made an artistic contribution, we will then install a solar powered water pump in Cassamance. Following our volun-teer service, we will print and distribute “A Book for Midwives”, a medical guide book translated for French speaking Africans.

Once we have completed our goals and documented the experi-ence, the results will be presented at a group exhibition during Art Basel in Miami, FL. The exhibit will include a documentary ÄST��JHU]HZ�WYPU[Z�VM�[OL�T\YHSZ��HZ�^LSS�HZ�HY[PZHU�Wroducts created during our travels. Proceeds frVT�[OL�L_OPIP[�^PSS�ILULÄ[�the African Birth Collective.

Senegal, West Africa

Our intentions in Africa are to create a healthy cultural exchange through art, music, literature, and community engagement. From November 2013 through December 2013, the World Bridge Project will begin multiple creative initiatives in Sénégal, West Africa.

WBP co-founder Jennifer Ingram previously served as a doula and midwife in training in Sénégal - delivering babies for weeks at a time, and thus building a special bond with the community.

Returning to Sénégal with a team of diverse artists, we will nur-ture that bond and kindle new connections. First, we will co-cre-ate murals with with the people of Dakar and surrounding villag-es, as well as host painting workshops for youth in the streets.

Once we have made an artistic contribution, we will then install a solar powered water pump in Cassamance. Following our volun-teer service, we will print and distribute “A Book for Midwives”, a medical guide book translated for French speaking Africans.

Once we have completed our goals and documented the experi-ence, the results will be presented at a group exhibition during Art Basel in Miami, FL. The exhibit will include a documentary ÄST��JHU]HZ�WYPU[Z�VM�[OL�T\YHSZ��HZ�^LSS�HZ�HY[PZHU�Wroducts created during our travels. Proceeds frVT�[OL�L_OPIP[�^PSS�ILULÄ[�the African Birth Collective.

Senegal, West Africa

Our intentions in Africa are to create a healthy cultural exchange through art, music, literature, and community engagement. From November 2013 through December 2013, the World Bridge Project will begin multiple creative initiatives in Sénégal, West Africa.

WBP co-founder Jennifer Ingram previously served as a doula and midwife in training in Sénégal - delivering babies for weeks at a time, and thus building a special bond with the community.

Returning to Sénégal with a team of diverse artists, we will nur-ture that bond and kindle new connections. First, we will co-cre-ate murals with with the people of Dakar and surrounding villag-es, as well as host painting workshops for youth in the streets.

Once we have made an artistic contribution, we will then install a solar powered water pump in Cassamance. Following our volun-teer service, we will print and distribute “A Book for Midwives”, a medical guide book translated for French speaking Africans.

Once we have completed our goals and documented the experi-ence, the results will be presented at a group exhibition during Art Basel in Miami, FL. The exhibit will include a documentary ÄST��JHU]HZ�WYPU[Z�VM�[OL�T\YHSZ��HZ�^LSS�HZ�HY[PZHU�Wroducts created during our travels. Proceeds frVT�[OL�L_OPIP[�^PSS�ILULÄ[�the African Birth Collective.

Senegal, West Africa

Our intentions in Africa are to create a healthy cultural exchange through art, music, literature, and community engagement. From November 2013 through December 2013, the World Bridge Project will begin multiple creative initiatives in Sénégal, West Africa.

WBP co-founder Jennifer Ingram previously served as a doula and midwife in training in Sénégal - delivering babies for weeks at a time, and thus building a special bond with the community.

Returning to Sénégal with a team of diverse artists, we will nur-ture that bond and kindle new connections. First, we will co-cre-ate murals with with the people of Dakar and surrounding villag-es, as well as host painting workshops for youth in the streets.

Once we have made an artistic contribution, we will then install a solar powered water pump in Cassamance. Following our volun-teer service, we will print and distribute “A Book for Midwives”, a medical guide book translated for French speaking Africans.

Once we have completed our goals and documented the experi-ence, the results will be presented at a group exhibition during Art Basel in Miami, FL. The exhibit will include a documentary ÄST��JHU]HZ�WYPU[Z�VM�[OL�T\YHSZ��HZ�^LSS�HZ�HY[PZHU�Wroducts created during our travels. Proceeds frVT�[OL�L_OPIP[�^PSS�ILULÄ[�the African Birth Collective.

Senegal, West Africa

Our intentions in Africa are to create a healthy cultural exchange through art, music, literature, and community engagement. From November 2013 through December 2013, the World Bridge Project will begin multiple creative initiatives in Sénégal, West Africa.

WBP co-founder Jennifer Ingram previously served as a doula and midwife in training in Sénégal - delivering babies for weeks at a time, and thus building a special bond with the community.

Returning to Sénégal with a team of diverse artists, we will nur-ture that bond and kindle new connections. First, we will co-cre-ate murals with with the people of Dakar and surrounding villag-es, as well as host painting workshops for youth in the streets.

Once we have made an artistic contribution, we will then install a solar powered water pump in Cassamance. Following our volun-teer service, we will print and distribute “A Book for Midwives”, a medical guide book translated for French speaking Africans.

Once we have completed our goals and documented the experi-ence, the results will be presented at a group exhibition during Art Basel in Miami, FL. The exhibit will include a documentary ÄST��JHU]HZ�WYPU[Z�VM�[OL�T\YHSZ��HZ�^LSS�HZ�HY[PZHU�Wroducts created during our travels. Proceeds frVT�[OL�L_OPIP[�^PSS�ILULÄ[�the African Birth Collective.

Meet the Artists: Safety First

Safety First grew up in Ithaca NY, currently lives in Oakland CA. He began drawing at 4 and painting at 15. His work is PUÅ\LUJLK�I`�(MYPJHU�J\S[\re, Hip Hop, graphic design, grafÄ[P�HUK�THU`�V[OLY�HY[PZ[PJ�PUÅ\LUJLZ��

Safety First is known on the streets for his inventive hand styles and in the galleries for his abstract portraits of empowering African cultural icons. He currently has a mural featured in the Oakland Museum of California.

Meet the Artists: Nikila Badua

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Weaving underlying stories, traditions, and ele-ments of the sacred indigenous with modern PUÅ\LUJLZ�VM�[OL�\YIHU�\UKLrground, Nikila's art is dedicated to honoring the maternal per-ZVUPÄJH[PVUZ�VM�5H[\re; thus birthing the alias "MamaWisdom".

Born on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, Nikila is a self-taught multi-media artist, designer, and performer inspired by an earth-based wisdom of Roots and Culture. Mother and community organizer, her work as an advocate for youth, indig-LUV\Z��LU]PYVUTLU[HS��HUK�^VTLU�Z�YPNO[Z�OHZ�WSH`LK�HU�PUÅ\-ential role within shaping the foundation of her creative path.

As a singer and dancer, Nikila devoted 10 years toperforming, recording, and touring with many well-respectedartists within the World, Reggae, and Underground Hip Hopmusic scenes.

While living in Hawaii, Nikila co-directed the youth arts organi-zation 808 Urban. She also works as the Art and Design Associ-ate for Women's Earth Alliance, is a core founding member of the Youth, Roots, and Justice program in Hawaii, and a free-lance artist and designer under the guise of MamaWiisdom1.

She currently resides in Seattle, Washington.

Music Collaborators: AfroMassiveBy bringing muscians to colaborate with some of the most talented underground hiphop artists of Senegal, we hope to fuse the beats of Africa and the west coast to create an ancient digital sound.

Aaron Bortz

Born and raised in Cleveland, OH, Aaron Bortz was raised with a strong musical WYLZJLUJL��/PZ�LHYS`�`V\[O�^HZ�ÄSSLK�JSHZZPJ�QHaa�HUK�YVJR�HUK�YVSS��/L�WPJRLK�\W�electric guitar and bass at age 15, which coincidentaly is when he found Fela Kuti and his love affair with afrobeat music came into play. After studying for years, he MV\UK�[OH[�T\ZPJ�^HZ�OPZ�WH[O��(�Z[LHK`�KPL[�VM�]HYPV\Z�^VYSK�T\ZPJ��VIZ\JYL���̩Z�HUK���̩Z�M\UR�HUK�HJPK�1Haa��HUK�^LZ[�JVHZ[�LSLJ[YVUPJ�T\ZPJ�OHZ�ZOHWLK�OPZ�[HZ[LZ�HUK�PUÅ\LUJLZ�HZ�H�IHZZPZ[��T\S[P�PUZ[Y\TLU[HSPZ[�HUK�WYVK\JLY�

After moving to Humboldt County, California in 2006 to attend University, he went on to found AfroMassive and continue his journey in the Northern California music scene by relocating to the Bay Area. It was in the gritty counter-cultural hub of Oakland, CA that he cut his teeth touring professionally with ALBINO! Heavy Heavy Afrobeat (www.albinoband.com). Since moving on from them, he has taken his career with AfroMassive to new heights and continues to build his resume and skills.

AfroMassive is a new ensemble bringing the masses exciting new music with a mission to turn on your brain and make you get down.

Based in northern California, AfroMassive is a collective of like-minded musicians looking to cultivate something uniquely different in our current diverse music scene.9VV[LK�PU�(MYVILH[�HUK�M\UR��[OL`�IYPUN�[OLPY�V^U�PUÅ\LUJLZ�[V�[OL�[HISL"�[OL�PTWYV]P-ZH[PVUHS�U\HUJLZ�VM�QHaa��LSLTLU[Z�VM�LSLJ[YVUPJ�T\ZPJ�HUK�OPW�OVW�HUK�V[OLY�PUÅ\-ences from sounds from around the world. Mixing heavy bass, driving beats, sweet synthesizers and an in-your-face horn section, the end result is a sultry concoction designed to move you body and your mind.

Music Collaborators: David Block“We don’t play music, music plays us” – David Block www.humanexperiencecreations.com

The Human Experience” is David Block’s principal project as a live electronic com-poser, multi-instrumentalist, producer. Listeners experience a delicious symphonic blend of prismatic soundscapes and sultry beats.

David is constantly pushing the boundaries of live electronic music. Playing, compos-ing, and conducting his own electronic symphony live on stage, his performances are brimming and layered with human emotion, world exploration, and sacred sounds. Whether performing by himself, or with a live band, “The Human Experience” always delivers an emotionally charged show.

“The Human Experience” aims to cross cultural barriers through music. David has collaborated with artists all over the world including Ignacio Perez (Buena Vista Social Club), William Close (The Earth Harp), Random Rab, Govinda, Amae Love, Rising Appalachia, and many others.

Since his debut album “Inaudible Sounds” in 2010 , he has released four other albums in the last two years and has four new projects planned for release in 2013. Each song is a sonic journey; interweaving psychedelic layers of melody and harmo-ny with organic grooves and international vibes.

Composing and performing live with the Audio/Visual/Dance projects “Phadroid” (Andrew and Phaedra Jones), “Quixotic”, “Lucent Dossier”, and “Seraphim” David is expanding his sounds into the mixed media world.

Since 2010, David has performed all over the world sharing the stage with renowned artists such as, Thievery Corporation, Bonobo, Tipper, Random Rab, Emancipator, Bluetech, Kalya Scintilla, and Kaminanda.

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Music Collaborators: Lafa Taylor

His collage of infectiously harmonic, bass heavy��T\S[P�[LTWV�T\ZPJ�X\PJRS`�OLH[Z�\W�[OL�KHUJL�ÅVVr. His vocal style ranges from sweet melodic choruses to tongue twisting rhymes. He is also known for his intricate beat boxing, and often incorporates live looping.

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A world traveler based in Oakland, CA Lafa Taylor is an achieved singer/emcee/producer. His music carries a message of inspiration and activation, while staying gritty, bassy, and most importantly dance-able. Lafa’s live show is energetic, dynamic and unique. He has a great talent for connecting with his audience and working with the energy of the crowd.

In the summer of 2003, at age 17, Lafa single hand-edly produced and released his debut album “Life Music”. In 2004, after three months of traveling around Costa Rica with a portable studio in his backpack Lafa released “Hot Winter”. Next he headed out to explore Japan. There he became a part of the multi platinum Japanese band “Def Tech” and played a 26 city tour. Every venue of this tour was sold out, including the prestigious Budokan in Tokyo which has a capacity of over 9,000 people. Lafa’s song “Lift Up” with Def Tech saw major suc-cess in Japan. It was licensed for a a Sony Ericsson commercial and the music video saw heavy rotation on MTV Japan and Space Shower.

Impact & NeedsAfrican Birth CollectiveThe African Birth Collective�PZ�H�UVU�WYVÄ[�VYNHUPaH[PVU�[OH[�OHZ�NYV^U�out of the need for greater safety and empowerment of women in their birth experiences, and a desire to bridge the gap between traditional and modern midwifery.

By exchanging knowledge and skills, providing essential medical supplies and educational materials and reducing infant and maternal mortality rates, the African Birth Collective makes a difference.

Direct entry midwives, or matrones, deliver the vast majority of babies in Senegal, yet their education is very limited, and mostly without an aca-demic component or written materials. Matrones typically spend only six months in clinical training, and are then posted to more rural clinics. Since they do not have any books, they often have an unclear understanding of the anatomy and physiology of birth.

Without a clear comprehension of birth complications, their causes and symptoms, there is a tendency to rush or induce deliveries, creating a myriad of risks that too often end in mortalities. The African Birth Collective is working to improve access to midwifery educational materials and curriculums. They have translated Hesperian Health Guides’ classic “A Book for Midwives”�PU[V�-YLUJO��ZWLJPÄJHSS`�MVY�educating matrones in rural areas of West Africa and Haiti where the need is great. Simply written and heavily illustrated, this book contains a wealth of life-saving information on family planning, nutrition, pre-natal care, prevention counseling on STDs, including HIV/AIDS, basic primary health care, diagnosing and treating a broad range of birth complications and post partum care.

Only 65% of women in Senegal are attended by a skilled practitioner during birth. Over 5% of infants die during childbirth, 35% due to infection. Maternal mortality rates are high as well; on average, one in twenty women will die in childbirth during her lifetime.

Impact & NeedsWhat we are offering:-4-10 large murals in the city of Dakar and a visit to Ziginshor to small villages up and down the coast.-Painting workshops with youth in the streets-Involvement in community events-Volunteering hours to facilitate a solar water pump at the clinic in Cassemance.-Musical collaborations with some of the mosttalented underground hip-hop artists in Senegal.-A body of art than can be used to create products to raise funds for the African Birth Collective.-Positive cultural exchange for both parties.

What we will need:

-Plane tickets for 10 people-Housing -Paints / Supplies -Food for artists - Give Away Items - Printing Funds

The funds from this campaign will pay for travel expenses,

art supplies, and the printing of the 'The Book for Midwives'

for the French speaking people of Northern African

Countries.

How You Can Help If you help support the World Bridge Project, you will see the positive impact of art, midwifery, and the power of cultural exchange. Here are some ways to support the project:

Contribute on Kickstarter - http://kickstarter.com/worldbridgeprojectKickstarter donors not only can contribute to something good, they have the chance to receive exclusive gear, limited edition prints, and even so far as an original portrait by Amanda Sage!Donate Art Supplies - Donation sites in Seattle, Portland, Eugene, Ashland, Arcata, Ukiah, Grass Valley / Nevada City,

Healdsburg, Sonoma, Napa, Oakland, San Francisco, Los Angeles. More details at www.worldbridgeproject.org

Donate Miles - @V\�JHU�HSZV�JOVVZL�[V�KVUH[L�`V\Y�L_[YH�ÅPNO[�TPSLZ�Donate Cash Direct - Paypal worldbridgeproject@gmail.com

“Coming back to the birthing grounds of life itself...We aim to bring beauty to where there may never be color.”

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World Bridge Project

P.O Box 513

Brookdale, CA 95007

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