Update on Our First Insight Trip to India

Update on Our First Insight Trip to India

Last week I was in India with Social Good Mom and Global Team of 200 member Nicole Melancon of Third Eye Mom. We kept up with all of our photos, … [Read more...]

We’re Joining UNICEF USA for an Important Discussion About Women and Girls

We’re Joining UNICEF USA for an Important Discussion About Women and Girls

Next Monday, May 6 from 2 - 3 PM EST we will join UNICEF USA's CEO Caryl M. Stern and their Deputy Director of Programmes, Survival, Growth and … [Read more...]

Join Us for the “Picturing Maternal Health” Twitter Chat

Join Us for the “Picturing Maternal Health” Twitter Chat

This Friday, April 5, 2013, leading NGOs and Momentum 1000 partners will rally to spread awareness about the 1000-days countdown to the expiration of … [Read more...]

Social Good Mom’s Breastfeeding Story Published by Gates Foundation

Social Good Mom’s Breastfeeding Story Published by Gates Foundation

We are thrilled that one of our members is published on Impatient Optimists today. Read her post: A Mother's Story in Nigeria: Breastfeeding Saves … [Read more...]

Save the Children Releases Important New Breastfeeding Report

Save the Children Releases Important New Breastfeeding Report

Save the Children released a brand-new breastfeeding report, Superfood for Babies, that says 830,000 babies' lives can be saved worldwide if they are … [Read more...]

One Million Health Workers Slated to be Trained in Sub-Saharan Africa

One Million Health Workers Slated to be Trained in Sub-Saharan Africa

While traveling on a long, remote road to a village in southern Ethiopia we noticed the vast amount of dust and sand covering the trees. Every person … [Read more...]

Bishoftu Hospital’s Maternity Ward

Bishoftu Hospital’s Maternity Ward

In Ethiopia 90% of all expectant mothers deliver their babies at home, but there are some who are referred by frontline health workers with a … [Read more...]

Maternity Equality in Uganda: How You Can Help

Maternity Equality in Uganda: How You Can Help

ACTION: Become a Shanti Uganda Birth Partner. Why and how below. As a mother who has given birth twice I feel a strong, overwhelming kinship with … [Read more...]

New Mini-Documentary Highlights Maternity in Sub-Saharan Africa

New Mini-Documentary Highlights Maternity in Sub-Saharan Africa

Paolo Patruno, a humanitarian photographer who spent 10 years in Africa, has been working on a photography and documentary project highlighting and … [Read more...]

New Partner Update: mothers2mothers

New Partner Update: mothers2mothers

In order to prevent babies from being born with HIV massive outreach must take place in order to encourage HIV-positive women to take the necessary … [Read more...]