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Protsahan: Giving hope to India’s children

June 6, 2013 by thirdeyemom

There are moments in life when you are so deeply moved by what one person can do to make a difference in the world that it takes your breath away. This is how I felt when I met Sonal Kapoor, founder of Protsahan, a school for underprivileged girls in the heart of India. Not even thirty years old, Kapoor is already considered one of the most inspiring young social entrepreneurs in the world and after a visit to her beautiful […]

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Categories: Delhi, EDUCATION, Global Team of 200, India, India Social Good trip, Protsahan, SOCIAL GOOD, Social Good Moms in India, TRAVEL BY COUNTRY • Tags: CULTURE, Delhi, Education, India, Mom Bloggers for Social Good, Protsahan, Social Good Moms India, street children, Travel

Pratham India: Every child, learning well

May 30, 2013 by thirdeyemom

Education is without doubt one of the key ways to lifting people out of poverty. In India, a country of over one billion people and an estimated 400 million living below the poverty line (World Bank 2010), education has become a matter of survival for the millions of children living in poverty in both rural and urban Indian. Per the 2012 the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER): Learning levels have dipped to an all-time low. So, almost half the 6-7 […]

Categories: ADVOCACY, Children, Delhi, Education, Global Team of 200, HUMAN RIGHTS, India, India Social Good trip, Pratham, SOCIAL GOOD, TRAVEL BY COUNTRY • Tags: Advocacy, CULTURE, Delhi, Education, global team of 200, India, Mom Bloggers for Social Good, Pratham, thirdeyemom, Travel

In the Background: Life in a Delhi Slum

May 27, 2013 by thirdeyemom

Behind the beautiful, lavish parts of Delhi always lies the most abject poverty imaginable. I have read several books on the slums of India and thought I’d know what to expect when I saw them in person. Yet nothing I’d ever seen in all my years of travel could have prepared me for the stark reality of desperation, misery and despair of walking through a real live slum in the heart of India’s capital.

Categories: ADVOCACY, Global Team of 200, Social Good Moms in India, WaterAid • Tags: CULTURE, Delhi, global team of 200, Health, India, sanitation, Social Good Moms, Travel, Vivekananda Slum, WaterAid

India in Instagram

May 23, 2013 by thirdeyemom

The last three days in Delhi have been a complete whirlwind. We have been on the move visiting our NGO partners for Social Good Moms to learn more about their work on the ground. Being in Delhi is like being at the forefront of humanity. The buzz of mass civilization frenzies around you and engulfs all your senses. There is so much going on at any one moment that it is hard not to blink your eyes in amazement. To […]

Categories: ADVOCACY, Delhi, Global Team of 200, India, SOCIAL GOOD • Tags: Advocacy, CULTURE, Delhi, India, Social Good, SocialGoodMomsIndia, thirdeyemom, Travel

The adventure of getting there is half the fun

May 21, 2013 by thirdeyemom

Sometimes getting there is half the fun. Traveling half way across the world is no easy feat and as long as you maintain a positive attitude and sense of humor than it can actually be quite an adventure. I began my journey to India at nine am on Sunday, May 19th and four flights and 36 hours later, I finally arrived at my final destination, Delhi. As always, there were lots of bumps along the way, a few which began […]

Categories: ADVOCACY, Global Team of 200, India, TRAVEL BY COUNTRY • Tags: CULTURE, Delhi, global team of 200, India, Social Good, SocialGoodMomsIndia, Travel

India Bound

May 16, 2013 by thirdeyemom

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world”. -Mahatma Gandhi “Building global connections both online and offline is the cornerstone of Mom Bloggers for Social Good” says founder Jennifer James who heads up one of the world’s largest social good sites for moms who blog. On Sunday, I am honored to be traveling to India along with Jennifer James, founder of Mom Bloggers for Social Good, to meet face to face with some of our partners as well as […]

Categories: ADVOCACY, Global Team of 200, India, TRAVEL BY COUNTRY • Tags: CULTURE, India, Mom Bloggers for Social Good, sevenly, Social Good, thirdeyemom, Travel

A 1-day-old baby born at Murakuri Health Clinic in Habiganj District, Bangladesh. Photo credit: Save the Children.

The Birth of a Mother

May 7, 2013 by thirdeyemom

In honor of today’s release of Save the Children’s annual State of World Mother’s report, I am sharing the emotional aspects of my birth story to help advocate for the one million newborns that die needlessly and helplessly within the first 24 hours of life. By sharing my birth story, I am joining moms from across the United States to help bring awareness and advocacy steps in making the first 24 hours of life count. The bottom of this post […]

Categories: ADVOCACY, Children, Global Team of 200, HUMAN RIGHTS, Save the Children, Women's Rights • Tags: Advocacy, global team of 200, mothers, Newborn health, Save the Children, State of World Mother's Report, thirdeyemom

Blog update: The next few weeks

May 5, 2013 by thirdeyemom

Life is a whirlwind right now. I just got back from France a week ago and now am soon heading to India on my first-ever trip as a social good blogger! I will be traveling to learn more about the amazing non-profits we work with as a member of the Global Team of 200. I am so incredibly excited I can hardly stand it.

Categories: ADVOCACY, Blog Updates, BLOGGING, Global Newborn Health, Global Team of 200, Habitat for Humanity, Save the Children, SOCIAL GOOD, UNICEF, Women Build • Tags: Advocacy, France, Habitat for Humanity, India, Save the Children, thirdeyemom, Travel, UNICEF, women build

World Food Program’s Live Below the Line Challenge

May 2, 2013 by thirdeyemom

Yesterday I had the opportunity to listen in a conference call along with other social good bloggers to hear World Food Program USA Board Chair Hunter Biden and WFP USA President & CEO Rick Leach discuss the “Live Below the Line” Challenge to help solve global hunger. The fact that 1 in 8 people in the world live in constant hunger – which means 925 million people will not get enough to eat this year (more than the populations of the […]

Categories: ADVOCACY, Global Food and Nutrition, Global Health, Live Below the Line, SOCIAL GOOD, World Food Programme • Tags: Advocacy, global poverty project, live below the line, Poverty, thirdeyemom, world food programme

Why I am advocating for newborn health

April 12, 2013 by thirdeyemom

Earlier this month, I posted on the upcoming Newborn Health Summit in South Africa and shared some tragic facts about how many children are not getting a chance at life. The post is called “Crisis and Hope in Newborn Health“. As part of the Global Team of 200, I have been working with the Gates Foundation this month to spread word and awareness about global newborn health in honor of The Global Newborn Health Conference being held on April 15th in South Africa. The […]

Categories: ADVOCACY, Global Newborn Health, Global Team of 200 • Tags: Advocacy, gates foundation, global team of 200, life, maternal health, Newborn health, parenting, thirdeyemom

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