#Moms4MDGs: MDG # 6 With The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

#Moms4MDGs: MDG # 6 With The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

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In 2000, 189 nations made a promise to free people from extreme poverty and multiple deprivations. This pledge turned into the eight Millennium Development Goals, and was written as the Millennium Goal Declaration .- United Nations Development Programme

 

The goals of MDG #6 are to combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria, and Other Diseases. This month we are thrilled to continue our #Moms4MDG campaign  by joining forces with The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to take on the topic of preventable infectious diseases.

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The goals of Millennium Development Goal # 6 are:

  • A. To Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS
  • B. By 2010, to have achieved universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS for all those who need it
  • C. To have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation  works tirelessly to support research, solutions and implementation towards improving global health.

 Guided by the belief that every life has equal value, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works to help all people lead healthy, productive lives. In developing countries, it focuses on improving people’s health and giving them the chance to lift themselves out of hunger and extreme poverty. In the United States, it seeks to ensure that all people—especially those with the fewest resources—have access to the opportunities they need to succeed in school and life.-www.gatesfoundation.org

Meet us over at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation blog Impatient Optimists  today to read the guest post by World Moms Blog contributor Erin Threlfall! 

We will be co-hosting two #Moms4MDGs Twitter Parties with The Gates Foundation, Multicultural Kid Blogs, InCulture Parent and Girls Globe tomorrow, January 15th at 1-2pm EST and 9-10pm EST, so please join us! 

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A big THANK YOU, to three amazing sites, Multicultural Kid Blogs, InCulture Parent and Girls Globe for joining us in the rally towards the UN’s Development Goals this month with The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation!

P.S. Never been to a twitter party before?  Go to www.tweetchat.com and put in the hashtag: “#Moms4MDGs during the party times. From there you can retweet and tweet, and the hashtag will automatically be added to your tweets. You can view all of the other party tweets at that hashtag as well!

This is an original post to World Moms Blog by World Voice Editor, Elizabeth Atalay of Documama in Rhode Island, USA.  

 

Elizabeth Atalay

Elizabeth Atalay is a Digital Media Producer, Managing Editor at World Moms Network, and a Social Media Manager. She was a 2015 United Nations Foundation Social Good Fellow, and traveled to Ethiopia as an International Reporting Project New Media Fellow to report on newborn health in 2014. On her personal blog, Documama.org, she uses digital media as a new medium for her background as a documentarian. After having worked on Feature Films and Television series for FOX, NBC, MGM, Columbia Pictures, Warner Brothers, 20th Century Fox, and Castle Rock Pictures, she studied documentary filmmaking and anthropology earning a Masters degree in Media Studies from The New School in New York. Since becoming a Digital Media Producer she has worked on social media campaigns for non-profits such as Save The Children, WaterAid, ONE.org, UNICEF, United Nations Foundation, Edesia, World Pulse, American Heart Association, and The Gates Foundation. Her writing has also been featured on ONE.org, Johnson & Johnson’s BabyCenter.com, EnoughProject.org, GaviAlliance.org, and Worldmomsnetwork.com. Elizabeth has traveled to 70 countries around the world, most recently to Haiti with Artisan Business Network to visit artisans in partnership with Macy’s Heart of Haiti line, which provides sustainable income to Haitian artisans. Elizabeth lives in New England with her husband and four children.

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BIG NEWS!! World Moms Blog to Join the Global Mom Relay!

DSCN0164Have you heard about the Global Mom Relay?

It’s 60 days of blog posts from celebrities and bloggers passing the baton about world motherhood!

During these 60 days every time you Facebook share, tweet or e-mail the posts in the relay, or donate $5, Johnson & Johnson and The Gates Foundation will donate $5 to campaigns that support the welfare of world mothers: Girl Up, the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action (MAMA), and the Shot@Life campaign.

It all launches today on International Women’s Day! We are so proud and honored to be asked to be a part of it, and we hope our followers will follow the conversation!

For more information and to follow the daily posts in the relay check out the UN Foundation site dedicated to the Global Mom Relay! Don’t forget…help unlock those donations by tweeting and sharing!

And fans, look out for 2 posts from World Moms Blog running in the relay in April/May time!

— World Moms Blog 

Everyday is International Women’s Day on World Moms Blog, but we are super thrilled to be sharing this global holiday with the world today! 

 

 

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World Moms Blog is an award winning website which writes from over 30 countries on the topics of motherhood, culture, human rights and social good. Over 70 international contributors share their stories from around the globe, bonded by the common thread of motherhood and wanting a better world for their children. World Moms Blog was listed by Forbes Woman as one of the "Best 100 Websites for Women 2012 & 2013" and also called a "must read" by the NY Times Motherlode in 2013. Our Senior Editor in India, Purnima Ramakrishnan, was awarded the BlogHer International Activist Award in 2013.

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