Dawn  House News - August 2023 - From the Editor

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The House, the aims and its caretaker

”Dawn House” is a house with garden in Oledo, a village 15 minutes drive from Idanah-a-Nova, central Portugal. The intention is to make the premesses gradually available as an incubator for cross pollination between Midwifery and Permaculture while nurturing Spiritual Growth.

The caretaker of “Dawn House”, Ibrahim, trained as a mature student in Flanders, Belgium. as a midwife. He experienced briefly the business of midwifery in The Netherlands and - known across the Atlantic as the proponent of the then popular Usenet group sci.med.midwifery - he was invited to a home birthing midwifery practise run by the late Sharon K. Evans in Oregon, USA. Sharon was a key figure in the creation of the North American Registry of Midwives (NARM). At a conference in Scottsdale, Arizona, he met Ina May Gaskin and other movers and shakers.

Ibrahim obtained a pedagogical degree allowing him to teach in higher education. He also holds a certificate of a State sanctioned course that provided insight in the mechanisms of intercultural work aimed at fulfilling a position in international development aid. He completed a Permaculture Design Course and intends to attend a PDC Teacher Training.

His hobbies, besides baking bread and cake, include creating digital copies of books and machine-translating them to Portuguese. He also keeps a video library of documentaries which he would love to project for a small audience, either at “Dawn House” or on location.

No longer is he practising midwifery in the field himself but he stays a strong advocate for both the improvement of midwifery care and for policies that strengthen the profile and position of midwives, doulas and other birth attendants. His intention is to work with and for local practitioners to reach towards this aim. Dawn House offers a number of facilities, under development, to help to realise this goal.

Dawn House
August 17, 2023