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Love and Heartbreak in a Honduran daycare

February 26, 2013 by thirdeyemom

Author’s note: This post is part of my series on my recent trip to Honduras. To read past posts on Honduras, click here. The main reason why I went to Honduras was to volunteer and give back. A month before leaving I found out my volunteer placement would be at a Honduran daycare center for poor single mothers to send their children to the day while they tried to earn a living. As a mother myself who adores children and an […]

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Categories: ADVOCACY, Children, CULTURE, HUMAN RIGHTS, INTERNATIONAL NON-PROFITS, INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTEER WORK, SOCIAL GOOD • Tags: children, CULTURE, Honduras, international volunteering, La Ceiba, parenting, Travel

Weekly Photo Challenge: Kiss

February 15, 2013 by thirdeyemom

The kiss…. …of a five year old Honduran boy named Gustavo, one of the children I worked with in La Ceiba, Honduras. To see more entries to this week’s challenge, click here.

Categories: BLOGGING, Honduras, La Ceiba, TRAVEL BY COUNTRY, Weekly Photo Challenge • Tags: children, CULTURE, Honduras, La Ceiba, Photography, postaday, Travel

My new little amigos

January 9, 2013 by thirdeyemom

I’ve completed my second day volunteering with the beautiful children at a children’s day care center that assists poor single mothers so they can work. Originally I thought I would be working at an orphanage but that was somehow lost in translation. I’m finding that much for me is lost in translation since I’m only at a very basic Spanish level. But I’ve come to understand with traveling, especially in developing countries, that you must simply go with the flow. […]

Categories: Honduras, INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTEER WORK, La Ceiba, TRAVEL BY COUNTRY • Tags: children, CULTURE, Honduras, La Ceiba, Photography, Travel, Volunteering

United Way’s campaign to teach children about poverty: Pass the Grade game

December 2, 2012 by thirdeyemom

This post is part of the Social Good Sunday series in which I highlight different organizations around the world making the world a better place. Poverty is a tough topic to comprehend. It is tragic, dark, unfair and cruel. A way of life that doesn’t make sense in a world that has so much for some and so little for the rest. If poverty is hard to understand as an adult, imagine how confusing it is to understand such a […]

Categories: ADVOCACY, Children, HUMAN RIGHTS, poverty, SOCIAL GOOD SUNDAY • Tags: Advocacy, children, Education, Greater United Ways of the Twin Cities, Minnesota, Pass the Grade, Poverty, thirdeyemom, United Way

SUNDAY SOCIAL GOOD: One Little Girl’s Trafficking Legacy

October 21, 2012 by thirdeyemom

This post is part of my Social Good Sunday series. It is a guest post from Chloe, the Founder & President of C.R.E.E.R in France & Cote d’Ivoire. C.R.E.E.R – Centre de Reinsertion et Education pour les Enfants de la Rue, or in English, a centre of reinsertion and education for street children I’ve always had a passion for Africa. I first visited east and southern Africa as a young child with my parents and my passion grew through many […]

Categories: Children, Guest Posts, HUMAN RIGHTS, SOCIAL GOOD, SOCIAL GOOD SUNDAY, Trafficking • Tags: Africa, children, Cote d'Ivoire, CREER, HUMAN RIGHTS, Ivory Coast, Poverty, Social Good, Social Good Sunday, thirdeyemom, trafficking

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Teaching your kids the value of giving back: Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF

October 9, 2012 by thirdeyemom

Some of my fondest memories of a child growing up in the 70s was trick-or-treating on Halloween with my siblings. Me, my brother and sister would walk for hours around our suburban neighborhood knocking on doors for candy. We’d come home exhausted yet smiling with pillowcases filled to the rim with sugary treats. We would pour our goodies onto the floor and would eat one a day for months to come. Imagine if the candy could be replaced with donations. […]

Categories: ADVOCACY, Global Team of 200, UNICEF • Tags: children, fundraising, global team of 200, Halloween, Social Good, thirdeyemom, Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF, UNICEF

Explaining the unexplainable to my children

September 11, 2012 by thirdeyemom

September 11, 2001. A day we will always remember. A day that we will never forget. A day that changed our world as we know it. A day that made our lives never the same. Copy of “First Pass, Defenders Over Washington” by Rick Herter. The painting depicts Capt. Dean Eckmann in his F-16, as he was the first to arrive at the Pentagon. A copy of this print is hanging in my sister’s Virginia home in honor of her husband […]

Categories: HUMAN RIGHTS • Tags: 9/11, children, family, September 11, terrorism, thirdeyemom, tragedy

Exploring the inside through the eyes of a child

July 20, 2012 by thirdeyemom

This week’s WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge is the topic: Inside. It made me think of my children and how much they love to be inside things, explore the world and have fun. To see life through the eyes of a child is to be a child again.

Categories: BLOGGING, FAMILY, PARENTING & FAMILY, Weekly Photo Challenge • Tags: children, CULTURE, family, Inspiration, Photography, postaday, thirdeyemom, Travel

HUMAN RIGHTS: A Voice for Children in Vietnam

April 11, 2012 by thirdeyemom

Reblogged from World Moms Blog: On a hot, steamy day in August of 2008, my husband and I stepped off of an airplane in Saigon, Vietnam. Mere moments after touching down in this faraway land, we found ourselves standing outside of an orphanage in the sweltering summer heat, waiting to meet someone we had only seen in pictures. And that’s when it happened; my life changed in two very important ways. Read more… 795 more words Hello Readers! I […]

Categories: BLOGGING, Children, HUMAN RIGHTS, Reblogs • Tags: children, hike blog love, HUMAN RIGHTS, vietnam, World Moms Blog

Commemorating Martin Luther King Jr. through the eyes of a child

January 16, 2012 by thirdeyemom

Sometimes in life, there is no better way to understand a complicated issue such as civil rights, than through the tender eyes of a child. I had the opportunity to volunteer in my son Max’s first grade class last week, and they were learning about Martin Luther King Jr. Through art and creativity, here are their dreams of the future…. I had a dream… My son Max’s dream: That all bombs will be sent to outer space. For a complete […]

Categories: CULTURE, HUMAN RIGHTS • Tags: children, CULTURE, HUMAN RIGHTS, life, PARENTING & FAMILY, thirdeyemom

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