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Becoming a Global Health Advocate

March 24, 2013 by thirdeyemom

Today is World Tuberculosis (TB) Day. I was asked to write a post for the UN Foundation’s Shot@Life blog on how I have become inspired to be a global health advocate. Here is the post. To check it out on the Shot@Life blog, click here. Never in a million years would I have pictured myself as a global health warrior. If you had asked me two years earlier if I’d be writing, volunteering and advocating on global heath issues, I […]

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Categories: ADVOCACY, Global Health, Global Health - Vaccines, SOCIAL GOOD, UN Foundation Shot@Life Campaign • Tags: Advocacy, doctor paul farmer, global health, Nobel Peace Prize Forum, thirdeyemom, world tb day

The impact of the good old Sweet Potato on Global Health

February 21, 2013 by thirdeyemom

Today I am honored to be collaborating with a group of women bloggers on behalf of ONE, a non-partisan, grassroots advocacy organization that fights extreme poverty and preventable diseases, to increase awareness about world hunger. ONE asks: “How can it be that 40% of Africa’s children are so chronically malnourished by the age of five that they will never fully thrive, physically recover or mentally develop – and this has not improved in two decades, despite so much other development […]

Categories: ADVOCACY, Global Food and Nutrition, ONE, SOCIAL GOOD, Sweet Potato campaign • Tags: Food, global health, nutrition, ONE, ONEMoms, Poverty, Sweet Potato, thirdeyemom

Advocating for global health on Capital Hill

February 13, 2013 by thirdeyemom

The last four days have been absolutely amazing. I was one of 100 men and women who went to our nation’s capital to learn about and advocate for global vaccines as part of the UN Foundation’s Shot@Life Campaign. It was my second time participating in the Shot@Life Summit and was such an honor to represent the people across the United States who believe strongly in the importance of providing global vaccines for children around the world.

Categories: ADVOCACY, Global Health - Vaccines, UN Foundation Shot@Life Campaign • Tags: Advocacy, global health, Global Vaccines, immunizations, Shot@Life, thirdeyemom, Washington DC

Headed back to DC to promote global health

February 7, 2013 by thirdeyemom

Last January I attended the United Nation’s Foundation Shot@Life Champion Summit in Washington DC and became a global health advocate. Along with 45 women and men across the country, I was trained in all areas of advocacy, social media and fundraising in order to become a grassroots advocate for providing life-saving vaccines to children around the world.

Categories: ADVOCACY, Global Health - Vaccines, UN Foundation Shot@Life Campaign • Tags: Advocacy, global health, thirdeyemom, UN Foundation Shot@Life Campaign

World AIDS Day 12/1: The beginning to the end of AIDS?

November 20, 2012 by thirdeyemom

Back in July I wrote a post titled “The End of AIDS: We can’t stop funding now”. The post was in response to my visit to our nation’s capital on behalf of my advocacy work with Results, a grassroots organization that works to end global poverty. During this visit, I had to opportunity to visit the Global Village at the XIX International AIDS Conference which was being held in the United States for the first time in many years. It […]

Categories: ADVOCACY, ONE, RESULTS, SOCIAL GOOD • Tags: Advocacy, AIDS DAY, global health, HIV/AIDS, thirdeyemom

The REAL Awards: Honoring Health Workers around the world

November 13, 2012 by thirdeyemom

Reaching a child’s fifth birthday is the focus of several campaigns out there to raise awareness, support and funding for the Child Survival Call to Action. In 2010, 7.6 million children died from preventable causes. Although this figure has improved over the last few decades, it is still a tragedy and unacceptable.

Categories: ADVOCACY, Global Team of 200, Save the Children • Tags: front line health care workers, global health, global team of 200, philanthropy, REAL Awards, Save the Children, thirdeyemom

Introducing The Social Good Sundays

September 10, 2012 by thirdeyemom

Hello Readers! Thanks for all the great feedback about the Friday Feature column! I have received many positive responses not only from bloggers who want to contribute but from readers who enjoyed last Friday’s posts. All in all, it worked out great and I think it added a nice new flair to the blog. I have two new featured posts coming up this Friday and another one in the works for the following Friday. I’m sure you will love these […]

Categories: ADVOCACY, Blog Updates, BLOGGING, Global Health - Vaccines, SOCIAL GOOD, UN Foundation Shot@Life Campaign • Tags: Blogust, global health, Shot@Life, Social Good, thirdeyemom

The leading lines of a mule train in Nepal

August 8, 2012 by thirdeyemom

Ailsa of Where’s my backpack hosted yet another mind racing travel theme this week called “leading lines”. I thought long and hard about this topic and couldn’t think of anything to post. Yet this morning laying in bed I got a voila moment. Yes, the leading lines of the infamous mule trains of the Nepalese Himalayas! So here it is…. If I sit here now and close my eyes, I can see and hear it now. The soft, melodic jingling […]

Categories: ADVOCACY, HUMAN RIGHTS, Nepal, poverty, SOCIAL GOOD, TRAVEL BY COUNTRY, Trekking/Hiking • Tags: Advocacy, annapurna trek, CULTURE, global health, Himalayas, Inspiration, Nepal, Poverty, Social Good, Travel

The Power of One Voice

July 25, 2012 by thirdeyemom

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” ~Martin Luther King, Jr. I want to give all my readers a huge thank you for all the wonderful, supportive comments I received after my post The Color of Guatemala was Freshly Pressed. I could not have been more humbled by the beautiful, encouraging comments I received from fellow readers and bloggers. It was a big pleasure to read each comment and I’m in the process of […]

Categories: ADVOCACY, Global Health - Vaccines, HUMAN RIGHTS, poverty, RESULTS, SOCIAL GOOD, UN Foundation Shot@Life Campaign • Tags: Advocacy, Blogging, CULTURE, ending poverty, global health, HUMAN RIGHTS, results international conference, Shot@Life, social justice, thirdeyemom, Travel

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