December 2013 - Global Moms Challenge

It Matters. Your Help Really Matters.

As the cold winter storms hit during this season of giving, our thoughts turn even more frequently to those who are in need. The scale of the world’s problems can feel overwhelming, and our own contributions inadequate. But our efforts matter. How they matter.

Empowering Girls & Women, Healthy Pregnancy & Birth, Motherhood

Love and Health, via SMS

My heart smiled the moment the four women entered the meeting room where I had been waiting. The young mothers sat in the chairs across from us and soon their babies were all perched up on the table, their proud moms making certain that we could see their precious little ones.

Healthy Pregnancy & Birth, News

Newsday Tuesday: A Car Mechanic’s Life-saving Invention

How can a cork stuck in a wine bottle save lives from a birth complication?

Education, Empowering Girls & Women, Motherhood

Why This Work Pulls At Your Heart Strings

Laura Turner Seydel, mother, entrepreneur and activist, recently returned from the International Family Planning Conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. More than 3,200 attendees from 120 countries gathered to call for renewed commitment to help women around the world gain access to voluntary family planning. We had the honor to interview her on this experience.

Gifts

We Love Giving and Receiving! Don’t You?

“You won't find gifts this important on any shelf this year.”

Healthy Pregnancy & Birth, News

Newsday Tuesday: Needle-free Shots

When we think of vaccines, we often immediately think about needles. Shots. Pain. But what if one day, we could administer life-saving vaccinations without needles? That day is here.

Empowering Girls & Women, News

20 Years Working For Your Rights

As we mark the recent passing of Nelson Mandela, a lifelong advocate for equality and democracy, we are even more mindful of the battle for human rights for all individuals. Tomorrow marks 20 years since the establishment of Human Rights Day.

Gifts, News

Newsday Tuesday: Today is the National Day of Giving

#GivingTuesday is a national day of giving back. This new holiday encourages everyone, everywhere to give to their favorite charities. Just as we have days for deals on Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday to grab our holiday bargains, we have a day to kick off the giving season to charitable organizations.

Healthy Pregnancy & Birth, News

Share This: 3 Must-know findings from ONE’s latest AIDS Report

ONE’s new report says 2015 will be the first time the world will be ahead of AIDS. If current rates of acceleration continue, we could achieve the beginning of the end of AIDS – when the number of people newly added to treatment surpasses the number newly infected with HIV – by 2015.

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