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Happy First Birthday Shot@Life!

April 26, 2013 by thirdeyemom

This week is Global Immunization Week a time set aside to celebrate and advocate the importance of providing global vaccines to save lives of children around the world. I have been an active member and advocate for the United Nations Foundation’s Shot@Life campaign for the last year and a half and have been continually inspired by how easy and simple it is to save lives. Every 20 seconds a child dies from a vaccine-preventable death. Yet we can change this tragic […]

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Categories: ADVOCACY, Global Health - Vaccines, UN Foundation Shot@Life Campaign • Tags: Global Vaccines, Shot@Life, Shot@Life Birthday Bash, thirdeyemom, UN Foundation

Global Mom Relay: Connecting moms around the world

March 8, 2013 by thirdeyemom

Today is not only International Women’s Day but also the launch of an amazing initiative put together by some of the most influential players in journalism, social good, business and the non profit world to create the Global Mom Relay, a 60 day relay connecting mother’s around the world. Here is the press release on the event and what you can do to help. It is going to be an amazing 60 days so be sure to follow along! “Global […]

Categories: ADVOCACY, SOCIAL GOOD, UN Foundation Shot@Life Campaign • Tags: Advocacy, gates foundation, global mom relay, shot at life, Social Good, thirdeyemom, UN Foundation

Starving in Sahel: It’s time to care

February 26, 2013 by thirdeyemom

The Sahel is the ecoclimatic and biogeographic zone of transition between the Sahara desert in the North and the Sudanian Savannas in the south, having a semi-arid climate. It stretches across the north of the African continent between the Atlantic Ocean and the Red Sea and covers parts of (from west to east) northern Senegal, southern Mauritania, central Mali, southern Algeria and Niger, central Chad, southern Sudan, northern South Sudan and Eritrea. (Source: Wikipedia) For hundreds of years the Sahel has faced devastating droughts that has brought immense famine and death across this often neglected part of the world. Recently, thanks to UNICEF, “over 850,000 children received lifesaving treatment for severe […]

Categories: ADVOCACY, SOCIAL GOOD, UNICEF • Tags: Africa, Drought, famine, Sahel, UN Foundation, UNICEF, Without you

What it means to become a global advocate

February 24, 2013 by thirdeyemom

My dear friend Jennifer Burden, mother, wife, advocate and founder of World Mom’s Blog, wrote a beautiful piece today as part of the Shot@Life’s 28 Days of Impact Campaign about her advocacy and recent trip to Uganda as part of Shot@Life delegation. Please on link below to read her heartfelt post and learn more about the work we are doing for Shot@Life. Click here to read: Uganda, Shot@Life, Capitol Hill, Champs & Mohammad! Jen came into my life over a year […]

Categories: ADVOCACY, BLOGGING, Inspiration, UN Foundation Shot@Life Campaign • Tags: Advocacy, Blogging, CULTURE, Friendship, Shot@Life, Travel, UN Foundation, World Moms Blog

Walk. Run. Bike. for Social Good

February 14, 2013 by thirdeyemom

As an avid runner, I was thrilled when I first heard of a new app called Charity Miles. Charity Miles has partnered with a lot of fantastic non-profit organizations and allows you to donate your miles after a run, walk or bike ride to one of their partner charities. All you have to do is download the free app, hit start, and you are on your way to doing good while you work out. Brilliant isn’t it? This month, Charity […]

Categories: ADVOCACY, Global Health - Vaccines, Global Team of 200, thirdeyemom, UN Foundation, UN Foundation Shot@Life Campaign • Tags: Advocacy, bike, charity miles, exercise, run, Shot@Life, Social Good, Sports, thirdeyemom, UN Foundation, walk

Giving Tuesday: Giving Back the Give

November 27, 2012 by thirdeyemom

Today is the first ever Giving Tuesday, a day across the country dedicated to giving back. Launched by the creative minds of the UN Foundation, Unilever Corp. and United Way, what started simply as a great idea turned into a mass event involving over 4,000 organizations in all 50 states. It is the hope that Giving Tuesday starts a new national day of giving via the collective power of charities, families, businesses and individuals who will transform how people think about, […]

Categories: ADVOCACY, Giving Tuesday • Tags: Advocacy, Giving Back, givingtuesday, global team of 200, thirdeyemom, UN Foundation

Be the Change

November 15, 2012 by thirdeyemom

I recently subscribed to the WordPress Daily Prompts to see what kind of inspiration I could find on expanding my writing. I briefly read the prompts but never wrote one until today when I saw one that struck a chord in my heart. I read it and I filled with joy and excitement. I felt like the words were talking exactly to me. “What change, big or small, would you like your blog to make in the world”. I read […]

Categories: ADVOCACY, BLOGGING, Daily Post Writing Challenge, Inspiration, SOCIAL GOOD • Tags: Advocacy, daily prompt, Inspiration, NaBloPoMo, ONE, philanthropy, results, Shot@Life, thirdeyemom, UN Foundation, WP daily post, writing, WRITING PROMPTS

World Pneumonia Day 2012

November 12, 2012 by thirdeyemom

Today is World Pneumonia Day. Did you know that pneumonia is the biggest threat to children worldwide and that we have a vaccine available that can prevent it? Were you aware that every 20 seconds a child dies from pneumonia, a largely preventable and treatable disease? Here are some facts on pneumonia and the devastating impact this treatable disease has on child survival. (Source: Action: Global Health Advocacy Partnership): “Pneumonia is the world’s leading killer of children under the age of […]

Categories: ADVOCACY, Global Health - Vaccines, RESULTS, UN Foundation Shot@Life Campaign • Tags: Action.org, Advocacy, GAVI, pneumonia day 2012, results, Shot@Life, thirdeyemom, UN Foundation, Vaccines, world health

The Gift of Giving

November 10, 2012 by thirdeyemom

“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” ― Winston Churchill I have always had a strong desire to give back. I acknowledge that my life on this earth is a minor blimp in time, a moment passed by the blink of an eye in the grand scheme of things. A piece of me has always wanted to leave a footprint behind. Make a difference and touch people’s lives. Why do I feel so […]

Categories: ADVOCACY, Giving Tuesday, Global Team of 200 • Tags: Advocacy, Giving Tuesday, philanthropy, thirdeyemom, UN Foundation

A new way to give back: Giving Tuesday

October 30, 2012 by thirdeyemom

As an avid world traveler, advocate and global volunteer I’ve often found myself having a difficult time coming to terms with the inequities and injustice in the world. Often times, when I return from a trip abroad I find myself feeling a deep sadness and guilt about how much the “haves” truly have in this world and how much the “have-nots” are left out. Even in the United States, one of the richest, most prosperous countries in the world, we […]

Categories: ADVOCACY, Giving Tuesday, SOCIAL GOOD, thirdeyemom • Tags: Charity, Giving Back, Giving Tuesday, givingtuesday, holiday season, philanthropy, thirdeyemom, UN Foundation

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