Activist Archives - World Moms Network https://worldmomsnetwork.com/category/activist/ Connecting mothers; empowering women around the globe. Fri, 21 Oct 2022 02:02:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.11 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/2016-World-Moms-Network-Logo-512-125x125.jpg Activist Archives - World Moms Network https://worldmomsnetwork.com/category/activist/ 32 32 World Food Day 2022 with CARE https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/10/20/world-food-day-2022-with-care/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=world-food-day-2022-with-care https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/10/20/world-food-day-2022-with-care/#respond Fri, 21 Oct 2022 01:51:52 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=38066 Hello World Moms!   We are back this week from our extended summer break and have been up and running behind the scenes in October planning out our next year! Today, we have a special call to action for World Food Day…read on! Sunday, October 16, 2022, I was in Philadelphia with the CARE foundation for World Food […]

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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/10/20/world-food-day-2022-with-care/feed/ 0 ALT Summit + The Riveter in NYC https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/10/11/alt-summit-the-riveter-in-nyc/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=alt-summit-the-riveter-in-nyc https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/10/11/alt-summit-the-riveter-in-nyc/#comments Tue, 11 Oct 2022 21:09:06 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=38031 World Moms Network Editor at Large Elizabeth Atalay attended the recent ALT Summit + The Riveter conference in New York City. The Riveter summed up some of the memorable moments in this post. The ALT Summit + The Riveter conference was my first in-person event since the pandemic and brought about all the feels! The […]

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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/10/11/alt-summit-the-riveter-in-nyc/feed/ 1 Lockdown Reflections: Musings From a COVID-19 Warrior’s Wife (Part1) https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2020/10/13/lockdown-reflections-musings-from-a-covid-19-warriors-wife-part1/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lockdown-reflections-musings-from-a-covid-19-warriors-wife-part1 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2020/10/13/lockdown-reflections-musings-from-a-covid-19-warriors-wife-part1/#comments Tue, 13 Oct 2020 17:19:18 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=35894 Jennifer Burden, the founder of World Moms Network, asked me to share my family’s COVID-19 story from India. I have been reluctant because our hearts go out to so many I know, who have lost family and friends near and dear to them in India and across the world, from COVID-19. I hope our story […]

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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2020/10/13/lockdown-reflections-musings-from-a-covid-19-warriors-wife-part1/feed/ 2 India: Voices of High School Students: Altruism from Youth #YouthDay #OmegaIntlSchool https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2020/08/27/india-voices-of-high-school-students-altruism-from-youth-youthday-omegaintl/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=india-voices-of-high-school-students-altruism-from-youth-youthday-omegaintl https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2020/08/27/india-voices-of-high-school-students-altruism-from-youth-youthday-omegaintl/#comments Fri, 28 Aug 2020 02:34:25 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=35863 On the International Day of Youth, World Moms Network – Senior Editor, Purnima from India, met with a few young high school students. Read on to find their take on the state of affairs of the world, their life ahead in times of this pandemic, their passion, their ways of achieving their dreams and goals, […]

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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2020/08/27/india-voices-of-high-school-students-altruism-from-youth-youthday-omegaintl/feed/ 1 Discrimination Due To Menstruation https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2020/01/13/discrimination-due-to-menstruation/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=discrimination-due-to-menstruation https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2020/01/13/discrimination-due-to-menstruation/#comments Mon, 13 Jan 2020 06:00:03 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=35739 Universally, women and girls menstruate. The age may vary for every young girl, but the experience can be traumatic, sometimes even deadly. I recently came upon two news items that shocked and saddened me. The first story was of an 11-year-old girl from the UK who had her period while in school. When she asked […]

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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2020/01/13/discrimination-due-to-menstruation/feed/ 1 CANADA: Campaigning For Change https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2018/09/12/canada-campaigning-for-change/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=canada-campaigning-for-change https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2018/09/12/canada-campaigning-for-change/#comments Wed, 12 Sep 2018 04:06:19 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=35376 It seems that there is no place on earth that is immune to bigotry. Not even Canada, which has been regarded by many as one of the world’s last bastions of sanity. After a campaign that was eerily similar to the Trump-vs-Hillary battle, Ontario elected as its Premier a man who is eerily similar to […]

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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2018/09/12/canada-campaigning-for-change/feed/ 4 #GLOW #Heartfulness #Webinar: Achieve Total Fitness and Maximum Health (Dr. Ruth Heidrich, Ph.D.) https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2018/07/06/glow-heartfulness-webinar-achieve-total-fitness-and-maximum-health-dr-ruth-heidrich-ph-d/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=glow-heartfulness-webinar-achieve-total-fitness-and-maximum-health-dr-ruth-heidrich-ph-d https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2018/07/06/glow-heartfulness-webinar-achieve-total-fitness-and-maximum-health-dr-ruth-heidrich-ph-d/#comments Fri, 06 Jul 2018 12:37:55 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=35326 Ruth Heidrich, Ph.D. is an internationally acclaimed speaker and authority in health, nutrition, and fitness. Known as the “other Dr. Ruth”, this six-time Ironman Triathlon finisher has held age-group records in every distance from 100-meter dashes to 5K road races to ultramarathons, the pentathlon, and triathlons, including 8 golds in the Senior Olympics.  She has […]

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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2018/07/06/glow-heartfulness-webinar-achieve-total-fitness-and-maximum-health-dr-ruth-heidrich-ph-d/feed/ 1 Sharing Tres Leches Cake in America #familiesbelongtogether https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2018/07/02/sharing-tres-leches-cake-in-america-familiesbelongtogether/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sharing-tres-leches-cake-in-america-familiesbelongtogether https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2018/07/02/sharing-tres-leches-cake-in-america-familiesbelongtogether/#comments Mon, 02 Jul 2018 05:00:05 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=35305  “Who wants some cake?”  My friend, Adelyn Ruiz-Lopez, asked. “I am so full,” I said with a laugh. “But it’s Tres Leches cake!” she quipped with a smile. “Tres Leches cake!”  Our heads turned and gazed longingly at the delicious light and fluffy cake. “Well, maybe one slice,” I replied. Now in our thirties, my […]

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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2018/07/02/sharing-tres-leches-cake-in-america-familiesbelongtogether/feed/ 1 World Voice: Akka – A Visionary Who Won the Hearts of Little Ones #WorldDayAgainstChildLabour https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2018/06/12/world-voice-akka-a-visionary-who-won-the-hearts-of-little-ones/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=world-voice-akka-a-visionary-who-won-the-hearts-of-little-ones https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2018/06/12/world-voice-akka-a-visionary-who-won-the-hearts-of-little-ones/#comments Tue, 12 Jun 2018 15:48:13 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=35274 The International Labour Organization (ILO) launched the World Day Against Child Labour in 2002 to focus attention on the global extent of child labor and the action and efforts needed to eliminate it. Each year on 12 June, the World Day brings together governments, employers and workers organizations, civil society, as well as millions of […]

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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2018/06/12/world-voice-akka-a-visionary-who-won-the-hearts-of-little-ones/feed/ 5 Interviewing Nancy Sumari, #WorldMom, Miss World Africa, Miss Tanzania (2005) https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2018/03/30/interviewing-nancy-sumari/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=interviewing-nancy-sumari https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2018/03/30/interviewing-nancy-sumari/#respond Sat, 31 Mar 2018 02:45:00 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=35141 Happy Women’s Month! You may have read some of this phenomenal woman’s posts right here on World Moms Network. One of our own contributors, Nancy Sumari, has agreed to be interviewed for my Phenomenal Women Series, and it comes right on time as we keep celebrating Women’s History Month and women’s excellence (something, I believe, […]

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