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 Welcome to Sahara Educare Services


Parent Coaching Rooted in Culture, Care, & Confidence


 This season of life is sacred—and it can feel overwhelming.


Whether you're preparing to welcome your baby or navigating those tender early weeks postpartum, you're facing big emotions, big changes, and even bigger love.

But let’s be honest—joy and stress often show up together.
And parenting doesn’t come with a manual.

That’s where we come in.


 What We Offer

Sahara Educare Services is a parent coaching service created to support, empower, and walk alongside families as they transition into parenthood.


We offer warm, culturally-affirming guidance as you:


  • Navigate emotional ups and downs
     
  • Understand and respond to your baby’s needs
     
  • Build calming routines that actually work
     
  • Balance your identity, relationships, and mental wellness
     
  • Honor your cultural wisdom while shaping your own path
     

This is not therapy and it’s not prescriptive advice—
It’s reflective, personalized support to help you feel steady, confident, and seen.


 Our Approach: Rooted in Respect, Reflection, and Relationship


We center:


  • You as the expert on your family
     
  • Your values as the foundation of your parenting journey
     
  • Your baby’s cues as powerful communication
     
  • Your mental and emotional wellness as essential
     

You don’t need to “fix” anything.
You deserve space, support, and someone to walk with you.


 How It Works


  • Free 15-Minute Consult
    Get to know each other and see if we’re a fit
     
  • 1:1 Coaching Sessions (Virtual)
    Flexible, culturally grounded support at your pace
     
  • Optional Partner or Co-Caregiver Sessions
    Because parenting is a team experience
     
  • Ongoing Messaging Support
    For those “what do I do now?” moments between sessions
     

 Who This is For


You might be:


  • Pregnant and unsure what to expect emotionally


  • Parenting after birth trauma
     
  • Newly postpartum and feeling exhausted, anxious, or unsure
     
  • Parenting an infant and struggling to find your rhythm
     
  • Wanting support that affirms your culture, your pace, and your instincts
     

If this sounds like you, you’re in the right place.


You Deserve Support That Honors You


This is about more than parenting tips—it’s about nurturing you, so you can nurture your baby from a place of grounded strength.


📞 Ready to Begin?


Book your FREE consult today and let’s talk about how we can support your journey.


Book a Free 15 Minute Consult

Family Support Service List

Developmental Therapy

Developmental Assessment

Determine your child's current developmental strengths, current developmental levels of functioning, current emerging developmental skills, as well as any developmental areas that could benefit from additional developmental support. 

Child Development Coaching

Real-time, relationship-based, family coaching support directly related to the needs of your child in the context of their natural environment. We'll partner with you to learn more about how best to meet your child's changing developmental needs.

Developmental Monitoring

Administer regular developmental screenings and track developmental progress from conception through age 8. We will serve as your developmental record keeper continuously  through early childhood.


Early Mental Health Services

Reflective Childbirth Education

Individualized, reflective Lamaze childbirth education classes. 

Reflective Lactation Counseling

Individualized, reflective lactation support sessions. 

Perinatal & Parent/Child Bonding Coaching

Individualized, exploration and practice of early relational health practices from conception to postpartum to kindergarten. 

Reflective Parenting Groups

A group facilitated Parent Cafe exploring developmental protective factors in early childhood as well as in parenting.

Reflective Parenting Annual Membership Includes:

Reserve Your Spot. Space is Limited!

Ongoing Developmental Monitoring for 12 months

1 Developmental Yearbook

1-90 minute support session per month for 12 months

1-Reflective Parent Meeting per month for 12 months

1- Developmental resource pack per month for 12 months

Welcome to Sahara Educare Services LLC w/Tutu's Storybooks.

Our mission is to promote positive racial identity development through books. We offer a variety of racially & culturally-affirming developmental services to meet the needs of the whole child. Whether you're looking to prepare for a new baby, improve your child's behavior, or help your child make meaning of their unique hair texture and skin tone, we provide the safe space and protective expertise to support you on your parenting journey. Our experienced Child Development Specialists,  Family Support Specialists, Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) Coaches are here to guide you every step of the way. 


Our July "Summertime" book collection is in honor of National Black Family Month. 

Scroll down and enjoy our exclusive, "Summertime" children's book collection.

About Us

Maimunah Marah, MSEd, LCCE, CFLE, CCHW, ECMH-E®, ERS

Early Child Development & Behavioral Care Manager


Maimunah is a currently a mother of two supportive teens. She enjoys traveling, dancing, and exploring new activities with family & friends. 

Maimunah was born two months premature and unconscious due to IPV. And thanks to her early care team she lived. She was fortunate enough to later become a Head Start graduate. She was born into early Intervention and has worked in early intervention and early childhood her entire adult life.  Her easy-going and humorous nature always makes learning fun for everyone. She draws from her lived experiences and what she's learned from the families she's served over the many years, to provide the informational and emotional support families deserve in some of our most isolating times in modern history. Strengthening the family/child bond early, positively impacts the whole health of the entire family. And if you've been searching for family support that you can relate to and trust, book a free 30-minute consult with Maimunah, today.

Service History

Tutu’s Storybooks was founded in 2013 in an effort to close the access gap to authentic African Diaspora representation in the early childhood classroom and also the broader community at large. Tutu’s Storybooks is a Black-owned and woman-owned business based out of Montgomery County, MD. Our Founder originates from Sierra Leone, West Africa. In 2018 we merged with Sahara Educare Services LLC to provide private family support services, teacher coaching, and infant and early childhood mental health consultation. And so Sahara Educare Services LLC w/Tutu’s Storybooks has been flourishing ever since. Together these product and service duo promote positive racial identity development in early education through early literacy and reflective & resilient families. Sahara Educare Services LLC w/ Tutu’s Storybooks has been proudly servicing the Washington, DC metro area, providing books, program-specific/individualized early literacy, and culturally-congruent support services in-home, virtually, as well as program settings. 

Congratulations to Maimunah Marah for her dedication to early relational health and collaboration.
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P0 Box 38 Kensington, MD 20895

(202) 630-5403

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