Bucharest’s “Holy Empress Helen” Counselling and Information Centre will sponsor participation in the next Heartbeat International Conference for a Romanian pro-life worker. The sponsorship will be awarded to a Romanian who can convince Santa Claus that he or she has a serious intention to support women in pregnancy crisis.
“If you really want this sponsorship, you need to convince our Pro-Life Santa that you love women in pregnancy crisis and that you intend to do something for them in the future. Write Santa a letter and tell him about yourself: why you are pro-life, what motivates you to offer support to pregnant women and what plans you have for the future,” the representatives of the centre announced before Christmas.
“Send your letter by email at [email protected] no later than December 31 and you might start the new year with good news: You might be the one to get the sponsorship. Santa is on his way.”
The sponsorship covers the fees for online access to the workings of the world’s largest international pregnancy crisis event: the Heartbeat International Conference.
The event has reached its 51st edition and unites experts in the field from all continents, who are members of the most extensive network of pregnancy help centres in the world.
The conference is held between March 30 and April 1, 2022. Its theme, “Onward”, was chosen to transmit the wish of continuous involvement and progress in supporting women in pregnancy crisis.
This year’s edition, just like the previous one, will be held in a dual format: with a physical presence and online participation. The sponsorship offered by the “Holy Empress Helen” Centre will cover the costs for online participation.
The winner will have access to 120 workshops held by pro-life experts during the 3 conference days, the possibility to ask questions during the Q&A sessions, access to additional materials (presentations, videos, charts), access to a virtual fair with 150 participants from the US, and 21-day access to the recordings of the workshops held during the conference.
“These people have acquired a fabulous experience in the 51 years of activity and continue to develop support programmes for women in pregnancy crisis and training programmes for pro-life workers – social workers, psychologists, coordinators, volunteers,” says Alexandra Nadane, coordinator of the “Holy Empress Helen” Centre.
Heartbeat International has approximately 3,000 affiliated centres on all continents. Among the members of the network are two Bucharest centres established by the Association to Support Pregnant Women and Families: Holy Empress Alexandra, inaugurated in 2017, and Holy Empress Helen, inaugurated last year.
The Executive Director of the association, Alexandra Nadane, participated in the 2019 edition of the conference when she was awarded the “Heart of Future” Award for her involvement in offering support to women in pregnancy crisis, for her efforts to advance the professionalization of Romanian pregnancy help centres, and for her initiative to have an event dedicated to pregnancy crisis organized in the European Parliament: Babies Go to the European Parliament.
Jor-El Godsey, President of Heartbeat International, has recently participated in Romania’s National Conference of Pregnant Women Support Centers, organized online by the association managed by Alexandra Nadane.
Heartbeat International is the first network of pro-life pregnancy resource centres in the US and the largest and most expansive in the world. It was founded in 1974 by Peggy Heartshorn, who started it by hosting women in pregnancy crisis at her home.
Since then, the organization has become the largest in the world. In the US alone, the number of such centres is approximately 1,300 – twice more than the number of Planned Parethood abortion clinics in this country.
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