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ALBERTA, CANADA: The Meaning of Life & Death
We read about it as young children in folklore and fairy-tales. If we grew up in religious homes, we were taught about various aspects of it, without a full understanding of what it all meant. While I have a different outlook at this stage in my life, I try to shield...
EGYPT: Zeina’s Story Could Be Any Child’s
Zeina was a 5-year-old girl living with her family in Port Said, a city on the Suez Canal in Egypt. She was the youngest of three children. One fateful day, Zeina was playing in front of the door of her apartment. The porter was going to the roof of the building and...
SOCIAL GOOD: My Struggle Between being a Mommy and a Mama
Last November, I visited Tanzania to meet all of the students of the Mom2Mom Africa program, a not for profit organization that I started a short while ago. I remember visiting and spending time with all of the students in the program, and they would refer to me as...
Happy 50th Anniversary to Disney’s It’s A Small World!
There's a Bigger World Out There When I was a toddler back in the 1970s, my favorite toy was a wind up pocket radio box that played "It's a Small World". As the music played, it turned the little children from all around the world dressed in different clothing past...
NEW ZEALAND: Boys Nurture, Too
When my boys were small, it was easy to find ways for them to nurture. They all had dolls and stuffed animals to care for and I tried hard to let them hug me whenever they wanted, even when it was really inconvenient or awkward, or snotty, or tiring for me. But it got...
Field Report From #BrazilMDGs : Rap Music Creates Social Equality, Awareness, & Human Connection
Our visit to Sao Paulo with The International Reporting Project was coming to a close. After a very hectic day of Community heath visits and chatting with doctors, nurses, and community health workers, we just had to do something very cool. And what nicer thing than...
WASHINGTON, USA: Unintentional Acts of Inspiration
I was mentally sabotaging my morning run before the day even started. I laid in bed the night before thinking about how I was getting to sleep too late after eating too much junk when I knew I was coming down with a cold. I had not set myself up for success and felt...
PHILIPPINES: When your heart expands
I haven't written for World Moms Blog in a while, I've had the privilege to work with two wonderful organizations in our country in the past few months, which is why I've been lying low around here. Most of my work has been online: blog coaching, doing digital...
Saudia Arabia: Losing Balance
I never really had a paying job. In fact, I still don't. I started a new business and as anyone who has taken the leap and started a business knows, that doesn't mean you're getting paid or will get paid any time soon. For the first time in my life I have "job job"....
Field Report From #BrazilMDGs : Health Care System – Right To All
Raimunda is a 46-year-old mother to two beautiful daughters aged 19 years old and 7 years old. She sadly has lungs cancer, stage-4, has undergone chemotherapy, and now is in palliative care. Her family physician, Dr. Rodrigo D’Aurea took us to her house yesterday in...
SOCIAL GOOD: No mother should have to go through this
Last year, on a whim, I decided to join the NYC chapter of Moms in Training. I came across it at a time when I was looking for somewhere to volunteer. This was a no-brainer.... get some exercise, meet new moms, help cancer patients and be a good role model for my...
BRAZIL: The Esquel Group
This post follows up on WMB's eight-month campaign to raise awareness for the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In this post, we reflect on MDG #7: Ensure Environmental Sustainability. The following is an interview with Silvio Rocha Sant’Ana, president of the...
NEW JERSEY, USA: How many moms does it take to raise a child?
Well, let’s see… so far, I have counted four. First, there is robot mom. She is on auto pilot because she is up twenty two hours a day, doing pre-programmed tasks such as: feed baby, burp him, change his diaper, rock him to sleep for an hour. She repeats these tasks...
INDONESIA: Navigating Stranger Danger
Recently, while checking out at the grocery store my 6-year old daughter wandered a few aisles down to chat with someone while she waited. In child-friendly Indonesia, this is pretty common. Though my son is generally more wary of people, my daughter is naturally...
TANZANIA: Haves & Have Nots
Living in a developing country and being blessed enough to be able to work, provide for your family and get by, is considered lucky. In Tanzania people are considered poor when their consumption is below than the national poverty line. Consumption includes all goods...
SOCIAL GOOD: World Moms Take On The Live #BelowTheLine Challenge
One could barely think straight after five days she was so hungry. Another who is pregnant, was sapped of all energy after only one day. Me, I caused a stink at the grocery store checkout over 65 cents, .....yes, we were impacted. I don't think any of us will think...
AUSTRALIA: Interview with Michelle Lewsen of They Call Me Mummy
Where in the world do you live? And, are you from there? Asking me where I am from is never going to get you a short answer. I was born and raised in Johannesburg, South Africa where I had the most idyllic of childhoods. South Africa is a magical place with a...
VIDEO: Day 5 Live #belowtheline Update
This week I joined a group of World Moms Blog contributors who have been trying to live on $1.50 a day for 1 day. One day, turned into the full 5 day challenge for me, and today, Day 5, wasn't what I expected: Look out for our collaborative World Moms Blog post on...
FLORIDA, USA: Africa’s Treasure
"Hey bro, vipi? How much for these shoes?" I ask the second-hand market vendor. "Ah! Those, for you, those are $30 U.S.dollars," he responds with a tone indicating that he's giving me a deal. He didn't know I was Tanzanian, maybe because I hadn't yet spoken more than...
World Moms Blog Founder Extends Her #BelowTheLine Challenge
A few months ago, the Live Below the Line of Poverty Challenge contacted World Moms Blog to ask if any of our contributors would like to take their challenge -- 5 days of living on $1.50 per day. According to the World Bank, there are over 1.2 billion people living...
Interview with Kristine Brite McCormick Of Cora’s Story
Meet World Moms Blog Contributor Kristine Brite McCormick, and learn how Cora's Story is helping to help save lives. Where in the world do you live? And, are you from there? I was born and raised in Indiana, USA. I am originally from a small rural Indiana town, went...
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