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TANZANIA: Interview with Nancy Sumari from Mama Zuri
Where in the world do you live? And, are you from there? I live in Dar es salaam, Tanzania. I was born in Arusha, on the northern part of my country, raised in Nairobi, Kenya and came back home after finishing off my schooling and then moved to Dar es salaam where i...
WORLD VOICE: Empowerment: Attainable Goal or Another Buzzword?
As many of you know, one year ago I started CleanBirth.org, a non-profit aimed at reducing infant and maternal mortality in Laos. We provide nurses with training, birthing supplies and funding to educate village volunteers about safe birthing practices. One...
AUSTRALIA: ‘Step’ into My World
My husband and I have four boys – his, mine and ours. We have one child each with other partners and then the two younger ones we have together. They now range in age from 16 – 24 years of age. This morning my son sent me a text message to say his girlfriend has begun...
CHICAGO, USA: BlogHer International Activist Panel 2013
Upstairs in a quiet little room, tucked away far from the madding crowd - were four of the most inspirational women I have ever had the pleasure of meeting. They came from far and wide, each with a story to tell, of lives we can hardly imagine. Yet here they were -...
ISRAEL: Interview With Rita: Using Music As A Conduit For Peace
When you're offered an opportunity to interview the biggest female singing sensation in your country, you jump at it. Last month during the Israeli Presidential Conference I was lucky enough to meet and interview Rita Jahan-Foruz a singer known simply as Rita. Rita...
World Moms Blog Launches 8 Month MDG Campaign!
World Moms Blog Speaks Out... ...Millennium Development Goals We announced our new campaign at BlogHer Chicago at the BlogHer International Activists Panel! Join us for our monthly twitter parties with hashtag #Moms4MDGs to keep the conversation flowing about the...
Massachussets, USA: Traveling Like a European
We just returned from a family trip to Europe. It was the first time we took our kids, ages 7 and 4, on an overseas vacation and we wanted to be sure to make the most of the experience. Right from the outset, we did two very un-American things: 1) we took more than...
WASHINGTON, USA: Swimming lesson drama
It was a beautiful afternoon. Blue, sunny, skies warm temperatures – a perfect Seattle summer day. My three year old and I walked towards the community center holding hands. As we got closer she froze up. She stopped walking. She said, “I don’t want to go.” I...
PHILIPPINES: Mom On (Forced) Time Out
I've been on supermom mode over the last few months. School has started for us here in the Philippines, and for the first time my son is spending the whole day in class. Because of this I've been on 5am kitchen duty preparing breakfast and packing snacks and lunch....
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: Boxes, Bubble-wrap…and a New Perspective?
Decades ago, as I moved around Manhattan from cheap apartment to cheap apartment, most of my stuff fit into “New York luggage:” big black Hefty garbage bags. Now that I’ve acquired children, however, and all their junk precious possessions, the New York luggage has...
WORLD VOICE: A Village Made Into Heaven
A couple of weeks ago, we featured a remote village, Piplantri (Western India) on the Gates Foundation. Piplantri is a model village, whose actions of change have been very well received all over India. They plant 111 trees for every girl child who is born, create a...
FRANCE: The Ethics of Mommy Blogging
About three weeks ago, I logged onto my Wordpress dashboard and noticed that I had a massive spike in my page views, all linking to one post that I written about a year ago in a fit of anger. Further research lead me to realize that a German blogging news group had...
World Tour: Gender Roles, Mr. Mom and Ms. Dad
I happen to be a single dad, and because I am a single dad, I learned to do things I never imagined I would need to do. Bras and panties, for example. I’m an expert, and I don’t really care who dislikes my presence in those departments in the clothing stores. My kid needs them.
WASHINGTON, USA: Mommy’s Playlist
I try to expose my kids to all types of music. In the age of internet radio, it’s so easy to pick a genre and see what happens. On any given day, my kitchen may be filled with the sounds of rock, bluegrass, jazz, reggae, classical, or music from regions all over the...
INDONESIA: The Absent Grandparent
Out of the blue, my daughter recently asked “Mommy, who is your Daddy?” “My Daddy is Grandpa”, I said. “Do you remember him? We visited him in the desert.” “No, Mommy. Can we go to the desert again, so I can remember him?” This breaks my heart. Growing up, I always...
MOROCCO: Keeping It All Under Wraps
Recently, my boobs took a trip to Jordan. At least it seemed at the time that the rest of me was just along for the ride. Never had my cleavage gotten so much attention; never had it occupied my thoughts so completely. Having lived in Morocco for almost a year, I...
SOCIAL GOOD: Let’s All Become Globally Responsible Mothers!
As we all know, raising children in today’s society can be a financial challenge for many. As mothers, we are often seeking the best deal on the purchases we make. Like many, I do consider myself to be a responsible consumer and I try to purchase from ethical sources....
BELGIUM: When Special Needs Children Have Children
It is a running gag that we Belgians like to make things complicated. This shows itself best in the Moloch which calls itself ‘Government’. Government – like all of its kind – has a thing for paperwork. It starts even before you are born, when your mother and father...
CALIFORNIA, USA: Family + Puppy = Happiness?
A few months ago, while waiting in our laundry room, I saw some magazines left on the table. I picked one of them and started flipping through. Being in a not so very happy period of my life, one article drew my attention: Give yourself a happiness makeover. Beneath...
SINGAPORE : Being your child’s greatest role model
I'm pretty confident when I say I have most things under control at home. But when it comes to driving, that's where I fail miserably. I got my driving license 10 years years ago, and by right, driving to me should be easy peasy by now. But just like teaching a child...
SOUTH AFRICA: A First Love Mystery – SOLVED!
On 15 May I wrote a post about searching for an old boyfriend, which caused a few of my awesome fellow WMB moms to don their detective hats. They helped me find two possible addresses for the man I was looking for. After much soul-searching, I eventually decided to...
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