“Since baby bonding, our relationship just gets better and better”
Loving parents, loving children
Lullaby Africa teaches baby bonding where lullabies, love and attachment are in short supply. Across sub-Saharan Africa, violence, famine and trauma have broken the bonds between the generations. We empower parents and carers to rebuild those bonds and give children the best start they can.
We’re established and expanding in Kenya and Uganda. With your help, we’re reaching further – to Somalia, Rwanda and Zimbabwe to name but three. We’d love you to grow attachment with us.
Since 2011, we have worked in 69 low income rural and urban communities across Uganda and Kenya.
55
self-help groups upand running
4000
mothers and carers trained in baby bonding
100
local leaders trained and equipped
3
charities using our training films in their work
7
Languages our films have been translated or subtitled into
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£3
provides each participant with a bottle of massage oil and laminated leaflets so she can teach her friends
£15
pays a local leader’s expenses for a day a week for a month enabling her to travel around her community teaching baby bonding
£25
delivers a life-changing course of baby bonding to one participant
Bonnie’s Story
Lucy started talking to her baby, Bonnie, when she was a week old, after coming to one of our sessions. Then we met her again when Bonnie was about one. Lucy learned from us that ‘it is possible to play with a baby’…
Pastor Joseph’s story
Pastor Joseph has seven children. We met him when his 7th child Suzy Blessing was a few months old, because he had given permission for us to meet in his tin hut church. He quizzed us about what we were doing, came to our workshops about baby bonding with the mothers and learned to show his love to her…
Molly’s story
Molly had always sung to her children because her mother had sung to her. However she used to quarrel and beat them…
“The baby bonding carried out by Lullaby Africa is literally life changing. The research is crystal clear; children who enjoy a “good enough” attachment relationship with a parent or carer do better across the whole lifespan. They are happier, healthier, do better educationally and socially and go on to give their own children the very best start too.”
Debi Maskell-Graham, parenting expert and founder of big toes, little toes
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