A Mother’s Day to Remember: Winner Gets Portrait By Anne Geddes
By Teri Whitcraft and Carrie Halperin For Allison Dearstyne of Dunkirk, Md., her first Mother’s Day as a mom may be the best ever. Last November, when she was nine months pregnant, she and her husband Richard entered a photo in the Million Moms… Read More »
EmailWebby Awards: Million Moms Challenge, For Consideration
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Letters to ABC News on our Global Health Coverage
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YOUR Challenge: For the Health and Well-Being of Mothers Everywhere
By JILL SHEFFIELD, President, Women Deliver OPINION In the time that it will take you to read this blog, at least one woman will die during pregnancy and childbirth. Mothers are dying around the world in staggering numbers- more than 350,000 women die while giving life… Read More »
Swelling Beauty: Anne Geddes’ Lens on Pregnancy
We’ve known and loved her singular work for decades: the sleeping newborn resting inside a rose, the triplet babies dressed as bunnies in a basket, the tiny baby face and hand peeking out of a crack in an egg shell. Anne Geddes’ photographs of babies… Read More »
Give a Life-Changing Gift: Gifts that Uplift for Under $100
This holiday season, give the gift of giving! Reach out and change a life. Check out these projects below; any of these gifts will make you feel good about giving. In Kenya, 8.4% of children die before they reach the age of five, and less than… Read More »
Kids Helping Kids: H20 for Life Brings Clean Water to Bangladesh
By CARRIE HALPERIN A year ago, ABC News’ Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Richard Besser reported on a group of students at H.B. Woodlawn High School in Arlington,Virginia, who made a pledge to help students in Bangladesh through an organization called H20 for Life. H20 for Life… Read More »
Save a Life, Save the World
There’s a verse in the Talmud that says: “…whoever saves a life, it is considered as if he saved an entire world.” A year ago we asked you to “Be the Change: Save Life.” We had no idea that you open your hearts with such… Read More »
‘Esperanza’: Mexico’s Future
REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK By DR. RICHARD BESSER Esperanza Esperanza– It means hope in Spanish. Fifteen years ago when I was living in San Diego, I worked every month in Tijuana, Mexico as a pediatrician in a little clinic run by the Catholic Church on the edge… Read More »
All mothers want to feed their children well
by BETSY SHAW, BabyCenter: MOMformation Million Moms Challenge Blogger My biggest fear about going to rural Guatemala with Save the Children was I would take one look at all those beautiful Guatemalan mothers and children and start to cry. I was right. But my tears… Read More »