Starting today, on International Women’s Day, moms and their friends will come together as part of a groundbreaking series of online conversations to share advice, stories, and inspiration about motherhood as part of the “Global Mom Relay,” a first-of-its-kind virtual relay with a goal of improving the lives of women and children around the globe.
As part of this relay, mothers around the world are mobilizing their voices and their social networks to raise the visibility of the stark statistics on women’s and children’s health: nearly 7 million children around the world will die from preventable diseases this year and every two minutes, a woman dies from complications related to pregnancy.
Each time someone shares a Global Mom Relay piece on Facebook, Twitter, or Email, or donates $5 or more, a $5 donation (up to $8,000 per day or $500,000 total) will be donated by Johnson & Johnson and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to one of four initiatives that are helping women and children lead healthy and happy lives – Girl Up, the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action (MAMA), and the Shot@Life campaign.
Created by the United Nations Foundation, Johnson & Johnson, BabyCenter, The Huffington Post, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Global Mom Relay combines the power of moms with the power of social media to raise awareness and raise funds to improve the health and well-being of mothers and children worldwide.
Great post! Now you’ve reminded me that I promised I’d write and post mine on the relay too!