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JORDAN: Interview with Jacqueline Jenkins
Where in the world do you live? And, are you from there? Four months ago, we moved to Amman, Jordan. Originally from Canada, I have been moving around the globe for more than twenty years as my husband works for UNICEF. What language(s) do you speak? I speak English...
WORLD VOICE: Landmark Day for Global Health – Over $7 Billion Pledged to @GAVI #VaccinesWork
Today was a landmark day for funding for the GAVI Alliance, which provides life-saving vaccinations for children around the globe. Over $7 billion US Dollars was pledged to GAVI, with the UK and the US leading the way. A group of our contributors have been working...
SOCIAL GOOD: #WorldMoms Make Birth Safe In Laos #CleanBirth
As many of you know, less than 3 years ago, I started an organization, CleanBirth.org, to make birth safer in Laos. We have had great success in 2014 with 2,000 Clean Birth Kits (hygienic birthing supplies that prevent infection) delivered and 88 Lao nurses and staff...
WORLD VOICE: #WorldMoms Attend NYC Preview with @SaveTheChildren for @APathAppears Airing Over 3 Nights
#WorldMoms were thrilled to be invited by Save The Children to the preview screening and discussion of the new Documentary A Path Appears, Executive Produced and Directed by Maro Chermayeff, this past Thursday in New York City. The film is based on the book by the...
WASHINGTON, USA: Asparagus, Popsicles, and Other Inside Jokes
Since having children, my husband and I have developed our own household lingo. Maybe we just got punchy after too many sleepless nights, but we started using code words. Also, as can happen from time spent living intimately with a group, our family has developed a...
INDONESIA: Back on the Career Path
"Need to go and get his hair cut…” I made a mental note as I run my fingers through his now obviously long hair. “But why Mommy?” “Oh no, I missed a question…” I inhale and look at him deeply. “Why what? Sorry I was just thinking you need a haircut soon.” “But why you...
SOUTH AFRICA: Blessed
Isn’t it a blessing that we aren’t able to see into the future? That we only get to live life one moment at a time, in the present? 2014 was hard on my family. It was the kind of year that one would want to skip if its events could have been known in advance. After...
WORLD VOICE: When I Truly Know I Do Not Matter
On the 7th of January I put on the television to hear more devastating news of an attack in France. Not again I groaned. Can't one just have a terror free day? What kind of world do we live in? My 13 year daughter was with me and she was very angry. What kind of...
UNITED KINGDOM: On Interplanetary Moms
I’m driving my daughters to school through a windswept city. The storm last night was long and loud and its effects are everywhere, from turned over bins to broken branches. The traffic is moving slowly. On the radio, a presenter reads a list of bleak news headlines....
NEW JERSEY, USA: Charlie Hebdo Massacre: A Call To Unite
A year ago, girls, teenagers who wanted an education so they could look forward to a great future, were abducted from their school in Chibok, Nigeria. They were taken away, kidnapped and removed from their family, because they were guilty of having ambitions. All...
LESOTHO: First Impressions and Back Again
In 2002, my international investment banking career in Singapore had left me drained. I needed to find the physical and mental freedom to return to my first passion, which was development work. I left my job and embarked on a solo backpacking journey, looking for...
WORLD VOICE: Keeping Family Ties Across the Ocean
Looking out of the plane window onto an endless ocean below, I thought about how long it took me to make a journey back to my father’s home country of Trinidad and Tobago, a pilgrimage long overdue. It had been 30 years since I set foot on the island. My dad grew up...
NETHERLANDS: The Gift That Keeps On Giving
I had a little ritual with my son when he used to be little. Sometimes when snuggling I would sit him down and tell him a little story. I would tell him about the biggest most precious gift I ever received. It has been ages since I told him that little story, but I...
MEXICO: Life Lessons with Mexico Mom
As a wife of one and a mom of four, it seems like I am always learning and discovering! I know I am not alone. Let’s just admit it: The world is a big place, life is a lesson, and children can be the best teachers. Normally my series, Life Lessons with Mexico Mom,...
JAPAN: The Glass Door
Gender equality has been in the news quite a bit in Japan recently, sort of, and some things have happened closer to home that have me thinking. It started when a (female) Tokyo assembly member was heckled in a sexist way. Then Prime Minister Abe introduced some new...
Egypt: 10 Ways to Live a Happier Life
Happy New Year! In this season of resolutions, many of us are looking for ways to live a happier life. As a mother, I believe increasing one's happiness is a wonderful thing to do for oneself and for one's family--an angry, bitter and unhappy woman can never make...
SOCIAL GOOD: Post 2015 & the Sustainable Development Goals
The 2015 deadline for the eight Millennium Development goals is upon us. As of December 31st 2015 not all of the goals will have been met, but huge progress has been, and continues to be made. If anything the past 15 years showed what is truly possible with concerted...
ONTARIO, CANADA: How Chilling Out Made Our Christmas Magical
Christmas and autism are two things that don't always go well together, because Christmas involves so many of the things that are anathema to people with autism: flashing lights, loud noises, crowds, changes to routine, the displacement of household furniture to make...
2014 Highlights…and We’re off on Blogcation!
Season's Greetings Readers! As the end of December approaches, so does the end 2014. We would like to thank YOU, for joining us and coming along for the ride over this past year. You...sharing our posts, posting comments, and interacting with us on social...
ISRAEL: The Empty Promises of Nostalgia
They sit there. A mixed pile of emotions, long lost puzzle pieces of my youth that have surfaced with a surreal reminder of joy and heartache. A collection of recollections of the beauty and naivete of my tormented, confused yet vibrant teen years. Pieces of papers...
INDIA: Too Close to Home #PeshawarAttack
I was channel surfing on the TV yesterday afternoon and I was dumb-struck by the news of the attack on the army school in Peshawar. The latest reports say that almost 150 people were killed, the majority being children. A mother was lamenting, “This morning my son was...
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