International Archives - World Moms Network https://iv1r64b91k.onrocket.site/category/international/ 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 International Archives - World Moms Network https://iv1r64b91k.onrocket.site/category/international/ 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 Lockdown Reflections: Musings From a COVID-19 Warrior’s Wife (Part 2) https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2020/10/21/lockdown-reflections-musings-from-a-covid-19-warriors-wife-part-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lockdown-reflections-musings-from-a-covid-19-warriors-wife-part-2 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2020/10/21/lockdown-reflections-musings-from-a-covid-19-warriors-wife-part-2/#respond Wed, 21 Oct 2020 15:45:00 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=35911 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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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2020/10/21/lockdown-reflections-musings-from-a-covid-19-warriors-wife-part-2/feed/ 0 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 Lumbini, Nepal: Buddha’s Birthplace, What Remains Now and the Ethos of the Heart https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2018/06/03/lumbini-nepal-buddhas-birthplace-what-remains-now-and-the-ethos-of-the-heart/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lumbini-nepal-buddhas-birthplace-what-remains-now-and-the-ethos-of-the-heart https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2018/06/03/lumbini-nepal-buddhas-birthplace-what-remains-now-and-the-ethos-of-the-heart/#comments Sun, 03 Jun 2018 07:02:34 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=35218 THE BIRTH OF Siddhārtha Gautama 6th Century BC: The old nurse looked at her radiant Queen, Maya Devi. She still had the same sweet smile on her face, and nothing seemed to have changed since the day she was born, the day the old nurse picked her up as an infant. Pregnancy only made her […]

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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2018/06/03/lumbini-nepal-buddhas-birthplace-what-remains-now-and-the-ethos-of-the-heart/feed/ 6 PUERTO RICO: Preparing For Maria https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2017/12/04/puerto-rico-preparing-for-maria/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=puerto-rico-preparing-for-maria https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2017/12/04/puerto-rico-preparing-for-maria/#comments Mon, 04 Dec 2017 12:53:11 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=34994 Puerto Rico is a US Territory an the Caribbean. There are 3.4 million American citizens living there and yet two months later many homes are still without electricity, and still some without running water.  Maria came thirteen days after Hurricane Irma, another category 5 hurricane, passed north of us. Irma devastated some of the neighboring […]

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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2017/12/04/puerto-rico-preparing-for-maria/feed/ 1 A Global Day of Giving! #GivingTuesday https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2017/11/28/global-day-giving-givingtuesday/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=global-day-giving-givingtuesday https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2017/11/28/global-day-giving-givingtuesday/#comments Tue, 28 Nov 2017 16:30:00 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=35006 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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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2017/11/28/global-day-giving-givingtuesday/feed/ 1 World Voice: From PranaPrathishta to Pranahuti – The Transformative Possibilities https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2017/09/27/world-voice-pranaprathishta-pranahuti-transformative-possibilities/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=world-voice-pranaprathishta-pranahuti-transformative-possibilities https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2017/09/27/world-voice-pranaprathishta-pranahuti-transformative-possibilities/#respond Wed, 27 Sep 2017 05:00:35 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=34910 There was an air of pious anticipation, that one could almost hear the elephants trumpeting while carrying huge granite stones to build the temple, one could almost hear the hum of the 400 odd dancing damsels’ and their anklets tinkling, while dancing for Lord Shiva (as the lore tells), and one could almost envision the […]

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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2017/09/27/world-voice-pranaprathishta-pranahuti-transformative-possibilities/feed/ 0 USA: Returning to Myself in Paris https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2017/05/05/returning-to-myself-in-paris/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=returning-to-myself-in-paris https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2017/05/05/returning-to-myself-in-paris/#comments Fri, 05 May 2017 05:30:12 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=34497 Just last week, I found myself in Paris, France. I was about to meet my niece, who was studying abroad, but I gave myself an extra first day on my own. I made plans with our contributor in Paris, Marie Kléber, whom I didn’t know very well, but whom I was so excited to meet! […]

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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2017/03/20/eight-reasons-travel-family-even-exhausting/feed/ 2 UK: Proud to be a Volunteer: 5 Reasons Why it Might Suit You Too https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2017/02/20/uk-proud-volunteer-5-reasons-might-suit/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=uk-proud-volunteer-5-reasons-might-suit https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2017/02/20/uk-proud-volunteer-5-reasons-might-suit/#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2017 06:00:41 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=34173 Earlier this week I wrote a gratitude post to share on my personal blog and I was really struck by a tweet someone sent me in response.  It said “what an inspirational post, I need to do more good in the world” and it really got me thinking. We all need to do more good […]

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