The 2014 Gates Annual Letter & Myth Busting
I wanted to stand up and shout “Bravo” after reading the 2014 Gates Annual Letter this week. It is so well done. Of course we’ve come to expect no less from Bill & Melinda Gates these days as they...
View ArticleEnsuring Every Baby Survives It’s #FirstDay ; Save The Children’s Report on...
When my first baby was born and handed to me all cleaned, and swaddled I looked up to my Doctor to ask “can I kiss her?” He laughed and said, “yes, she’s yours, you get to take her home”. Suddenly I...
View ArticleGlobal Impact’s Women And Girls Fund On #InternationalWomen’sDay
I was trying not to stare at her earlobe, but finally I had to ask. Not in English mind you because she spoke the local dialect of her village in Kalimantan. I asked her in that international pantomime...
View ArticleA Call For #Water4all On #WorldWaterDay 2014
The irony was not lost on me. I knew as I sipped the cool glass of water that this was not a luxury shared by most back at home. Here I sat in a café in New York City meeting with Water Aid...
View ArticleOur Chance To Eliminate Toxic Chemicals From Everyday Products
Sign this petition to #FightToxins in our products! This is a sponsored post written in conjunction with a Seventh Generation awareness campaign about toxins in our everyday products, and how we can...
View Article#March4Nutrition: The Critical Role of Nutrition From Pregnancy To The Age of...
Searching for food pantry donations to add to my shopping cart, I realized that as much as some of the the food I’d choose would fill bellies, it might not provide much actual nutrition. I had to...
View ArticleIt Is Safer To Give Birth In Estonia Or Slovenia Than The United States #SOWM
According to the 2014 Mother’s Index Rankings published in the Save The Children’s State of the World’s Mothers Report last week, you are statistically safer giving birth in Slovenia, (ranked the 17th...
View ArticleTools For Empowering Global Women; Book Review of 100 Under $100
“Women make up half our entire population. When they’re held back, half the world’s potential goes unrealized. But when women and girls are empowered, we’re not just better by half. The world is...
View ArticleSOS Children’s Villages in a #Relay4Kids
SOS Villages is in a #Relay4Kids SOS Children’s Villages, Johnson & Johnson and the Huffington Post launch Relay for Kids – a virtual relay that will help provide shelter, food and medical care to...
View ArticleSimple Giving Is The Best Gift Book This Season
I believe that is is human nature to want to help others when we can. Two of the biggest hurdles in giving to others are knowing who or what needs help, and then what we, within each of our personal...
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