About Make a Mother's Day
Loving children, mums, and carers around the world... the story so far
Mothers' Union ethical gifts have made some incredible things happen in the last three years.
Central Zambia has only two District Hospitals to serve a population the same size as London - 4 million people. Your birthing kit gifts last year equipped community birthing attendants there, and the Mothers' Union workers who train them, with £26,000 of training and resources.
You gave 1,915 chalk and blackboard gifts to literacy circles in Sudan, Malawi and Burundi. And in 2008, you gave 1,771 'grandma, read me a story' gifts to make grandmothers literate. Now, in 2010, over 44,500 women and men have become literate through Mothers' Union literacy work!
Your vegetable patch gifts and chicken little poultry projects contributed £53,792 to our Family Life Programme, getting families out of long-term poverty.
"Before, I didn't know how to use local resources like animal manure to fertilise my garden", one man told us in Buganda. "Now I am very proud of my garden and my food production. And now I'm sure I've built a good foundation for my children."
You gave 417 latrine and hand-washing gifts to Ugandan Mothers' Union groups setting up good hygiene in their communities, and building latrines and handwashing stands from local materials. You gave 175 transport gifts for 175 of our Mothers' Union workers round the world, taking emergency aid, family support and community care to isolated areas. And you resourced 186 seed capital gifts to Rwandan and Thai women starting small businesses.
"To feel part of this is just awesome! Because I don't have to wait a hundred years to see the changes, it's happening before my very eyes!"
Sheran Harper, Mothers' Union - Parenting in the West Indies
About Mothers' Union
Mothers' Union is a worldwide community of 3.6 million members across 78 countries of the world, all committed to supporting family life, child welfare, parenting, marriage and relationships.
Mothers' Union works uniquely through local people at the absolute grassroots. Often this means that local Mothers' Union networks can get emergency aid to families hit by disaster, sometimes when international aid agencies can't immediately reach communities worst affected.
Mothers' Union groups run parenting groups, AIDS orphanages, literacy and development circles, hospital support projects, prisons' childcare, community empowerment events and poverty relief work. The worldwide Mothers' Union network is also committed to prayer and to faith development, as well as interfaith initiatives and international campaigning and lobbying on a number of worldwide issues, such as parental rights and the commercialisation of childhood.
Mother's Union members are not just mums and not just female: they are men as well as women, people with children or without, in relationships or single; just all committed to a vision of a world where God's love is shown through flourishing relationships.
And Mothers' Union work around the world serves everyone - single, married, male, female; and people of all faiths and none.
To find out more visit our main website at www.themothersunion.org or email marketing@themothersunion.org
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