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Mother's Day 2011
Posted by Kate Sands Adams on May 8th, 2011
Happy Mother's Day! Over the past week we've been sharing some of our favorite stories about mothers. Today -- Lay Htoo and her newborn at the Tham Hin refugee camp, near the Thailand-Myanmar border. more »
Posted in Health, Asia, Thailand | Tags: humanitarian, midwives, refugee camps, women, Mother's Day 2011, Mother's Day gifts, prenatal care |
Posted by Kate Sands Adams on May 7th, 2011
In honor of Mother's Day — Sunday, May 8 — we're spotlighting some of our favorite stories about mothers: With support from an IRC economic empowerment program, Annie Grant runs a market stall in a Monrovia suburb. "I make enough money now to send my children to school," she says. more »
Posted in Education, Africa, Liberia | Tags: humanitarian, education, women, Mother's Day 2011, Mother's Day gifts | 1 Comments
Posted by Kate Sands Adams on May 6th, 2011
In honor of Mother's Day we're spotlighting some of our favorite stories about mothers. In the Ivory Coast, Prisca Mondo worried that without a birth certificate her baby daughter would not have a legal identity. With the IRC's help she was able to register two-month-old Daria, securing her access to education and health services. more »
Posted in Children & Youth, Africa, Ivory Coast | Tags: children, Cote d'Ivoire, humanitarian, Ivory Coast, Mother's Day 2011, birth certificates |
Posted by Kate Sands Adams on May 5th, 2011
In honor of Mother's Day we're spotlighting some of our favorite posts about mothers. Almost 20 years after they were banished from their home in Bhutan, Uma Timsina and her husband Chet Nath left a refugee camp in Nepal—and everything familiar—to rebuild their lives with their young son in New York. more »
Posted in Resettlement, United States, US - New York, NY | Tags: refugees, bhutanese refugees, humanitarian, mother's day gift, resettlement, mothers, Mother's Day 2011 |
Posted by Kate Sands Adams on May 4th, 2011
In honor of Mother's Day -- Sunday, May 8 -- we're spotlighting some of our favorite posts about mothers: With training from the IRC, home-based community health provider Nyibol Akol Padiet, a mother of three, is treating common childhood diseases in her own village. more »
Posted in Health, Africa, South Sudan | Tags: Africa, health, Mother's Day, Southern Sudan, Mother's Day 2011, community health providers |
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