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World Food Day 2022 with CARE

Jennifer Burden — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 01:51:52 +0000

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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Lockdown Reflections: Musings From a COVID-19 Warrior’s Wife (Part 2)

Purnima Ramakrishnan — Wed, 21 Oct 2020 15:45:00 +0000

My husband's COVID-19 experience has awakened many feelings that seem to be coming to my conscious mind in layers, in time.

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A Global Day of Giving! #GivingTuesday

Elizabeth Atalay — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 16:30:00 +0000

Giving Tuesday was created to transform how people think about, talk about and participate in the giving season. It has become an international movement around the holidays dedicated to giving, in the same way that Black Friday and Cyber Monday are now synonymous with holiday shopping. After the frenzied commercialism of Black Friday sales (that now […]

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CANADA: Top 5 Things I Love About My South Africa

Kirsten Doyle (Canada) — Thu, 25 Aug 2016 05:00:52 +0000

In 2000, I packed my life into checked baggage and travelled from Johannesburg to Toronto. I left behind my family and friends, my cat, most of my belongings, and everything that I was familiar with. All I had was two suitcases, a job offer, and a street map of a city I knew very little […]

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UAE: Does multilingual mean global?

Mannahattamamma (UAE) — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 05:00:25 +0000

When we moved to Abu Dhabi from Manhattan five years ago, we intended to stay in “the Dhabs” for a year. Our kids had scored the Manhattan Grail: spots in a “gifted and talented” public school, which meant we wouldn’t have to sell everything we owned to pay for private school, and if we stayed […]

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BRAZIL: Saving the World in Small Ways – Part II

Ecoziva (Brazil) — Fri, 03 Jun 2016 05:00:10 +0000

In an interview, a renowned academic in my field once said that when he was young he was certain about two things: 1) he didn’t want to teach, and 2) he didn’t want to write too much. He went on to teach in several famous universities and ended up writing 20 books. I found this […]

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USA: Global Village Membership

ThinkSayBe — Fri, 27 May 2016 05:00:11 +0000

If you’re a parent, or a child, or anyone, you may have heard the phrase. “It takes a village” (to raise a child). After reading a post written by a fellow contributor, KC, I remained in thought about this village that’s needed to raise our children. KC is currently a stay-home-mum to a precious toddler, […]

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SRI LANKA: Monsoon season arrives with Facebook Safety Checks

Orana Velarde — Wed, 25 May 2016 17:43:22 +0000

Monsoon season is on the brink. To make things interesting there was a Tropical Depression that started in Sri Lanka and made its way to India, flooding everything in it’s path. It turns out that “Flooding in Sri Lanka” made it to the Facebook Safety Check system and I promptly marked my family as “safe”. […]

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WORLD VOICE: How Social Change Happens

Ms. V. (South Korea) — Tue, 24 May 2016 05:00:06 +0000

I know a lot of people – women and mothers especially – doing really amazing things in the world. It is this that comforts me when I start to get depressed about the news. There are people all over the world who are using their unique gifts to creatively tackle the difficulties of our time […]

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WORLD VOICE: #GivingTuesday, A Day to Give Back

Alison Fraser — Tue, 01 Dec 2015 06:26:40 +0000

Typically, after Thanksgiving in the United States, the following Friday and Monday, known as Black Friday and Cyber Monday, kick off the holiday shopping season. Black Friday, in the stores and Cyber Monday, online. However, Giving Tuesday follows and is what now kicks off the holiday “Giving Season.” This movement has been around for […]

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