Global Giving Projects – A Mama's Blog

About a month ago, I blogged about the Global Giving project BlogHer was running through Mother’s Day to help save impoverished women and children’s lives. I announced that I would donate 50% of my sales from my on-line store, Little Pumpkin, Sweet Pea Designs from that post to today, Mother’s Day to the project.

While the sales weren’t as high as I would have liked- :-), I was able to donate double what I initally thought I could. Thank you, thank you to everyone who supported this idea, proposed by Amy from Crunchy Domestic Goddess, and a BlogHer Contributing Editor.

I was torn on which project to donate to, so I ended up donating to two: I donated to Help Afgan Women Deliver Healthy Babies Safely, and to the Mother & Child Health Clinic in Rural Nepal.

As I wrote before, I feel so blessed to have been born in a country where I don’t have to worry about having access to basic health care. As I celebrated Mother’s Day today, it really struck me how many less fortunate women and children never even get a chance to have a basic start in life, and have safe, and accessible health care.

You can still make a donation to these projects, by clicking the links above. The projects still need your help. The Nepal Mother & Child Clinic is only 7.8% funded, and the Afgan Women Baby Project is only 2.3% funded. Any amount- as big or as little as you can give will help.

BlogHer has announced that it has teamed up Global Giving in an effort to save as many women’s lives as possible between now and Mother’s Day.

We are so very fortunate to live in an area in the world, where we as women, have access to world class health care. Unfortunately for many women across the globe, just basic health care, let alone specialized maternity care is not available. Consider some of the statistics hundreds of thousands of women (and their babies) have to face (as posted on BlogHer):

* Every year, 529,000 women die from pregnancy-related causes.
* Children who have lost their mothers are up to 10 more times more likely to die prematurely than those who haven’t.
* Most maternal deaths (61 per cent) take place during labour, delivery or in the immediate post-partum period. Some 3.4 million newborns die within the first week of life.
UNFPA

From the Mother and Child Clinic in Nepal, to helping mothers safely birth healthy babies in Afghanistan, (where a woman dies of pregnancy-related causes every 27 minutes), the Global Giving projects can help save women’s lives in these desperate areas.

BlogHer has joined forces with Global Giving to make a difference in maternal health, and help save lives. BlogHer wants to find out how many women’s lives can be saved from donations between now and Mother’s Day.

I am joining Amy from Crunchy Domestic Goddess, and will donate 50% of the sales from my on-line store, Little Pumpkin Sweet Pea Designs, for the rest of April until Mother’s Day to the BlogHers Act/Global Giving project.

If you have browsed my store before, and have had your eye on something, now is a perfect time to go for it. Obviously you will have a cute shirt, but more importantly you will be helping to make a difference in maternal health for women who greatly need it.

If you have never browsed the store before, click here (or at the above link,) or on the store button in the right hand sidebar. This isn’t a post to promote my store, only a way to help raise money for this great cause, so I am only providing the link to the store, and not showing any pictures or links to any of the items.

You can also make a donation directly to the Global Giving project, by clicking here (or on the button at the top of the post). Please consider helping out in anyway you can. After reading what some of these women have to endure, it puts it all in perspective how very lucky we really are.