Hands Lifting Hearts is focused on helping pregnant mothers arriving in Calgary with no friends, family or experience of life in Canada. | CBCCalgary
Chinwe Achebe and her three-year-old son, Chukwudum, practice math at their home in Calgary.
It's something she says needs to be tailored to the Black experience by people that understand them and their journey. She starts with finding them accommodation and covers everything from building a network of Black friends, helping them find jobs and connects them with mental health support and the medical help they'll need while starting a family.
"Back home with a new baby everybody is all over you, they want to help in every way and when the baby comes everyone is excited. It's like that adage one woman bears the child but the whole community looks after the child."Founder of Hands Lifting Hearts, Clare Jagunna, has helped 30 women and families in the last two years and wants to grow her small organization to help more black women settle in the city.
Chinwe Achebe can't hold back the tears when she talks about the support she found after arriving in Canada from Nigeria four years ago, pregnant and with no supports in place. Jagunna opened her home to Achebe, providing her and her family with a place to live in her first days and weeks here.
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