Global Doula Project

06/02/2026

Community-based care grows stronger when local initiatives are supported.

We’re honored to share that the North Country Community Doula Program, led by 2025 scholarship recipient Julia Day, has received a Health and Wellness Award from Excellus BlueCross BlueShield.

With Global Doula Project serving as fiscal sponsor, this recognition will help support the continued development of community-based birth and postpartum care in upstate New York.

The program reflects a growing commitment to ensuring that families have access to compassionate, locally rooted support during pregnancy, birth, and postpartum.

We’re grateful to see community doula programs being recognized and supported as part of broader efforts to strengthen care and wellbeing.

Learn more about how community-based doula programs are creating meaningful support for families through our website.

05/31/2026

Are you curious about bereavement doulas and how they support families? Vallen Webb is a bereavement doula and also provides education for professionals who support families in the perinatal period. Knowing how to provide compassionate support for grieving families can make a difference that will last a lifetime. Here's a little information on what bereavement doulas do and how they can by a meaningful part of the healthcare team.

The work of bereavement doulas is inherently collaborative: they don’t replace hospital medics, birth or postpartum doulas, or therapists, but instead work alongside them to ensure that bereaved families can receive support that is adapted to their specific set of circumstances.

05/29/2026

We’re not always taught how to talk about death.

So we avoid it. Delay it. Push it away.

But when we allow ourselves to have these conversations, something shifts.

We begin to reflect. To prepare. To be more present.

Death doulas support individuals and families through these moments, creating space for care, clarity, and connection.

Because death is not separate from life. It is part of it.

Learn more about how we support end-of-life care through our website.

05/24/2026

What happens when we stop avoiding conversations about death?

In this conversation, there’s a shift. From fear to reflection. From avoidance to understanding.

There’s something deeply human in being able to witness, to talk about, and to sit with the reality of death.

Not as something to push away, but as something to approach with honesty and care.

This is where death doulas play an important role.

They support individuals and families through end-of-life experiences, helping create space for conversation, presence, and dignity.

Because death is not separate from life. It is part of it.

Visit our website to learn more about end-of-life care and support.

05/16/2026

A growing number of organizations around the world are stepping forward to share their work.

We’re grateful to those who have already submitted their information to be part of the Global Doula Training Directory.

Each one reflects a different way that care is practiced, taught, and shared within communities.

Together, they form a growing network of support, knowledge, and connection.

If your organization offers doula training, we invite you to be part of this collective effort to make this work more visible and more accessible.

Submit your organization through our website to be included in the global directory.

05/09/2026

Care doesn’t always happen in one place. Sometimes, it travels.

In Pretoria, South Africa, Happy Mama Healthy Baby Africa Alliance is supporting families through birth by going directly to local clinics, meeting people where they are.

Led by Moora Letsoalo, this group of community doulas offers care that is present, responsive, and rooted in the realities of their community.

This is what it can look like when support is shaped by access, not limited by it.

At Global Doula Project, we are honored to support organizations doing this kind of work.

Visit our website to learn more about how we support community-based doulas around the world.

05/01/2026

Here’s what transforming care actually looks like.

At Global Doula Project, our mission is more than words.

We strengthen community care systems by resourcing doula organizations, investing in future doulas through scholarships, and educating on collective support during life’s most profound transitions.

Sustainable change happens when communities are equipped, supported, and valued.

See how community-based doula support is being strengthened around the world through our work and visit our website.

04/23/2026

Support at the end of life is not new.

Across cultures and generations, communities have long held one another through death and dying…through presence, ritual, and care.

The role of the death doula continues this tradition today.

Death doulas offer emotional, spiritual, and practical support, helping individuals and families navigate end-of-life with dignity and connection.

At Global Doula Project, we support organizations that are strengthening and expanding this work in communities around the world.

Because care at the end of life is not a luxury. It’s a human need.

Learn more about our work and the role of death doulas by visiting our website.

04/16/2026

Before the final days arrive, there are conversations that bring peace.

Wills.
Medical proxies.
Power of attorney.
Where someone wants to be.
How they want their space to feel.

By helping individuals put their wishes in writing, Diane restores agency during a time when many feel it slipping away.

End-of-life care isn’t just emotional support . It’s empowerment.

Curious how we resource death doulas like Diane? Learn more about our work by visiting our website.

04/13/2026

Loss changes us.

When someone we love is here, life has a certain rhythm, a certain color.
And when they’re gone, everything shifts.

Grief is NOT something to move past or solve.

It’s something we learn to live with slowly, and often in ways we never expected.

Death doulas support individuals and families through these moments, offering presence, care, and space for grief to unfold in its own time.

At Global Doula Project, we support community-based doulas who provide this kind of care across cultures and communities.

This is what community care can look like.

Learn more about how we support community-based doulas offering this kind of care around the world by visiting our website.