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Topless in the USA : Breast Cancer Awareness Month
This time last year I found myself laying topless on a bed with laser beams dancing across my breasts. How strange, I remember thinking, to so cavalierly take my shirt off for so many different people after being married for over 20 years. I can’t say I’d ever been...
Lockdown Reflections: Musings From a COVID-19 Warrior’s Wife (Part 2)
My husband’s COVID-19 experience has awakened many feelings that seem to be coming to my conscious mind in layers, in time.
Lockdown Reflections: Musings From a COVID-19 Warrior’s Wife (Part1)
Jennifer Burden, the founder of World Moms Network, asked me to share my family’s COVID-19 story from India. I have been reluctant because our hearts go out to so many I know, who have lost family and friends near and dear to them in India and across the world, from...
India: Voices of High School Students: Altruism from Youth #YouthDay #OmegaIntlSchool
On the International Day of Youth, World Moms Network - Senior Editor, Purnima from India, met with a few young high school students. Read on to find their take on the state of affairs of the world, their life ahead in times of this pandemic, their passion, their ways...
How great (or not so great) is your country to raise a child?
Photo credit to Save the Children. Introduction to the Global Childhood Report 2020 How does your country rank when it comes to the lives of children? As World Moms, our hearts are with children, and we’ve been buzzing about Save the Children’s Global Childhood Report...
World Voice: Malaysian Women Balancing Business Appearance and Homelife
How would you react if someone said you needed to “look” better for work? Would you acquiesce or question it? Photo Credit: https://unsplash.com/photos/n7Cq2rdd73E Most of the world is under different stages of working from home due to coronavirus. While Asian...
World Voice: Gender Inequality Amidst #Coronavirus
As we all try to wade through the chaos brought on by Coronavirus, it has also given way to other sentiments that are less than desirable: gender inequality. Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in China, there has been a large number of women who have been affected the...
Social Distancing When We Are Socially Connected
COVID-19 has thrust so many from different countries to be on alert. Every day, the rules and regulations from different governments are changing, not just in the United States, but on a global level. When this virus made its presence known in December in Wuhan,...
Social Distancing is Kindness: #FlattenTheCurve
Americans are known for our spirit of rugged individualism. We love to celebrate individual creativity, ingenuity, entrepreneurship, and volunteerism. It can be inspiring! Except when it comes to fighting a global pandemic. The United States is a few weeks behind...
Discrimination Due To Menstruation
Universally, women and girls menstruate. The age may vary for every young girl, but the experience can be traumatic, sometimes even deadly. I recently came upon two news items that shocked and saddened me. The first story was of an 11-year-old girl from the UK who had...
India: A New Journey as a Published Author of Children’s Books
Writing a book is a passion for few, an easy one for some, the most difficult exercise but which has to be done for a few others and for a chosen few, it’s a call from God. Such people have no idea about the journey they would have to undertake to bring it out. Little...
WORLD VOICE: Eco-Conscious Beyond the Climate Strike
It was almost the end of October but high temperatures heated up across Southern California. It made me think about global warming. Last month young people across this country organized strikes and marches in many cities, suggesting that adults have not done a great...
WORLD VOICE: “Listen,” Said the Heart, “The Trees are Talking”
Sometimes, when the breeze passes through the trees, I ask my children if they hear the wind and the leaves make music and if they see them dancing. Have you ever heard this music? Have you ever seen this dance? I hope you have. It’s quite beautiful. This past July I...
Save the Children’s 2019 Global Childhood Report
There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats it's children. - Nelson Mandela Photo Credit Save the Children In the past couple of years there have been moments, after hearing yet another horrific news story, that I have...
Travel: The Amazon Spheres
Seattle, Washington, USA We know that nature has a positive impact on our mental and physical well being, and I felt the effect immediately upon entering The Amazon Spheres. Surrounded by nearly 800 species of plants, the bustle of the urban, outside world, dropped...
ASIA: Colorful Roses From South India Spread Fragrance Around the Globe
Next time you present a bouquet to your loved one or while welcoming a guest, thank the people of few villages in Krishnagiri district in south Tamil Nadu in India. Millions of these petite and fresh flowers spread fragrance in UK, Germany, Australia, Singapore ...
International Women’s Day
Photo Credit Elizabeth Atalay Every day at World Moms Network is International Women's Day. March 8th happens to be the day the rest of the world celebrates as well. We are incredibly grateful to all of the amazing women from more than 30 countries around the world...
World Voice: Where Parenting Never Ends
The mediocre teacher tells. A good teacher explains and a superior teacher demonstrates and a great teacher inspires. (A quote by Arthur Ward). “Mine was the one who inspired,” says Amudha Renganatha, founder of Canopo International. I have made it to the top now....
World Voice: South Korean Women Fight Against Spy Cams
Every person I know values their privacy, but what happens when you find out that your privacy has been invaded, or worse, been subject to scrutiny without your knowledge? Women in South Korea are currently fighting for their right to privacy, especially when it...
Born and Raised in Taiwan, I Actually Like How Americans Judge Parents
When my second child was six weeks old my husband had a business trip to Asia for one week. One evening when I was breastfeeding the baby, my first child demanded me to pick him up and carry him to the toilet, “Mom, I need to pee, now!” I couldn’t figure out how to...
INDIA: Robots, Go the Food Way
India, basically an agrarian economy has made great strides in various fields and especially in the field of robotics. The robots have gradually entered into sectors such as defence services, agriculture, manufacturing industries and so on. The petite man-like...
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