m2m Mums the Word Blog: Eleven accomplished bloggers are supporting our mothers in Africa with an exciting new monthly blog on our site, called m2m Mums the Word. This month’s blog post - Hate Mother's Day? You're not Alone. (but here's how not to)- is written by Nancy Friedman whose own blog is From Hip to Housewife.
Read previous m2m Mums the Word blogs and find out more about blogging team here
Why We Do What We Do: One of the greatest rewards at mothers2mothers is seeing a mother and baby who are healthy and excited about the future because of the support and information they received from our programme. We met Delisile Dlamini, her husband and 14-month-old daughter earlier this month at their small house in Manzini, Swaziland. Her story shows how Mentor Mothers are changing the lives of mothers and families throughout sub-Saharan Africa.
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In Baragwanath Hospital, outside of Johannesburg in South Africa, 8,000 HIV-positive women give birth each year - more than the number of HIV-positive women giving birth in one year across the entire United States. Ninety percent of HIV-positive babies are born in sub-Saharan Africa and 75 percent of the world’s HIV-positive pregnant women live in 12 African countries. Of the 33 million people living with HIV worldwide, 22 million are in sub-Saharan Africa. Read about how we help
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7Number of countries mothers2mothers operates in* |
402Number of mothers2mothers sites |
1060Number of Mentor Mothers working for mothers2mothers |
1,000,000+Number of HIV-positive pregnant women and new mothers enrolled in m2m programs since 2001. |
* Our programs in Rwanda and Zambia, funded by USAID's New Partner's Initiative (NPI), closed in May 2011 and January 2012 respectively after successful completion of the project objectives.