Upcoming Events

Thank you for joining our pop-up in the park with free baby goods, caroling, and snow! This event was free and open to the public. This was also great opportunity to learn more about Harambee! for Galveston's Youngest Citizens and how we can pull together for our children's first 1000 days of life!

We had a great time in Mendard Park this past Saturday at our Christmas in July Community Baby Shower! With donations from our community, we were able to share free diapers, formula, baby monitors, baby bottles, and baby books, and more!

We also had a chance to share about our initiative Harambee! for Galveston’s Youngest Citizens, and distribute flyers for baby brain building resources from Fanfare! Lutheran Music Academy, Family Service Center of Galveston County, Rosenberg Library, Pregnancy Help Center of Galveston, and DePelchin Children's Center.

For more information about this initiative visit https://tinyurl.com/NiaHarambee

We want to thank The Future is US for volunteering and always showing up, Fanfare! Lutheran Music Academy for the wonderful Christmas carols, Galveston’s Own Farmer’s Market for helping us collect supplies from the community, SMART Family Literacy for generously sharing books made possible by the Rotary Club of Galveston, Central Church for the Snow, and Becky Major from The National Hotel Artis Lofts & Proletariate Gallery & Public House for the Bubbles!

This event included a presentation and discussion with doula Channel Tabor about early childhood brain development and building baby brains. We invited Galveston parents, guardians, and caregivers of children under the age of 3 to register and attend. We will provided refreshments and $25 of laundry for registered attendees. This event also included free diapers for registered participants donated by the Angel Bottoms program through

God's Kingdom and Restoration Ministry's partnership with Galveston Diaper Bank and free baby books from SMART Family Literacy made possible by the Rotary Club of Galveston.

This event took place at

iWash Laundry, 2027 45th Street, Galveston, TX

This event was organized through Nia Cultural Center's Harambee! for Galveston's Youngest Citizens initiative. "Harambee" is the Swahilli word for "Let's All Pull Together". Funded by Episcopal Health Foundation, this effort invites our community to pull together and address the racial disparities in health and education outcomes experienced by Black children in Galveston by strengthening and improving local supports and resources available to families during the most critical time of their baby's brain development, the first 1000 days of life.

Channel Tabor HP, LMT, CHD

Holistic Practitioner/ Licensed Massage Therapist/Certified Holistic Doula Channel started on her path to becoming a Holistic Healing Practitioner in 2017 after rising from the ashes of her own “tower moment.” Channel had always yearned for children of her own, and when her first daughter came along in 2008, Channel experienced what it meant to feel a piece of her heart beating outside of her body. By 2015, Channel was the proud mother of three beautiful children – Lyric, Braylen, and Phoenix. When she became a single mother, her little family experienced hard times that would forever alter their course. Channel landed at Houston’s Star of Hope, a shelter for homeless families. Star of Hope offered a safe haven while Channel studied to become a Reiki Master through ALOP and CNA/Patient Care Technician at Lone Star College. She had always desired to help others while being a facilitator of healing and felt a career in the medical field may be a career path that would offer professional fulfillment as well as stability for her children. The experience of living in a shelter for seven months gifted Channel with valuable insights. She met many other women, each with their own stories and struggles. She saw first-hand the limitations that confront those in need, as well as the unexplainably limitless strength conjured by a mother’s love. Channel finally understood those infamous stories of mothers defying the laws of nature to save their children.

Channel completed her programs at Lone Star College but quickly learned that a career in the medical matrix did not resonate with her spirit. She was thrust into the business of medicine, working long hours with limited impact on her patients’ true well-being. Channel knew her heart was not in a career that valued profits over people. But it was people in need that called to her - specifically mothers and children - wherever she went. Channel was a healer, and she finally knew that much. She wanted to embody the change she wished to see in the world, and when she discovered the holistic sphere, she found her life’s purpose.

Channel dove headfirst into holistic healing studies over the next four years. Against all odds, she hurdled limitations, discovered financial independence, and earned a Massage Therapist License, Reiki Master Certification, and two Doula Certifications. She knew she could draw from each healing modality to best position herself in the service of consciously aware clients.

Channel credits single motherhood with gifting her the strength to pull her family out of a seemingly hopeless situation. It was for her children that Channel began to carve her own inspiring path forward. Allowing life to be her guide, Channel trusted that all things positive and negative were unfolding as part of a greater plan. Living at the Star of Hope softened Channel’s heart and served as a springboard for finding her true purpose in life – to work as a Holistic Practitioner, Doula, and LMT in the service of women, children and others in need.

Today, Channel is based in Galveston, Texas, and operates two successful businesses, Sacred Earth Holistic Wellness© and Into Witchin™, a holistic and natural product line. She is an experienced motivational speaker, a practitioner of Conscious Intuitive Parenting, and holds a Level III Reiki Master Certification from A Life of Peace Wellness Education Institute, a Massage Therapist License from Cortiva Institute, as well as a Doula Certification through Anasuya LLC Doula International and a Holistic Doula Certification through A Life of Peace Wellness Education Institute.

Channel is supported on her present path by her loving partner and husband Dominic, and the couple is joyously awaiting the arrival of their fourth child in December 2022.