BritMums is proud to be a founding member of ONE Mums – along with Michelle from Mummy From the Heart, Kate from Kate on Thin Ice, Alex from Doing It All for Aleyna, Michelle from The American Resident, Melitsa from Play Activities, Laura from Chez Mummy and BritMums co-founders Jennifer of www.Jenography.net and Susanna from A Modern Mother.
ONE Mums Melitsa (centre) and Kate listen to ONE initiatives
ONE Mums is the movement of British mums joining forces with the charity ONE to spread awareness of and fight extreme poverty and preventable diseases. You may have heard of ONE already because of its famous cofounder, Bono. We like him, but its the charity’s mission that’s really motivating us. The charity’s “blogger task force” started in America with their influential ONE Moms group and the idea is simple: mums leading a movement to promote education, engagement and activism on behalf of the world’s poorest.
ONE Mums Michelle, Alex and Michelle at the ONE briefing
If you’re concerned about world poverty, education, children’s health, the economic and agricultural wellbeing of developing nations, then take action and be a ONE Mum! Here’s how:
- Sign the petition urging EU leaders to pass laws requiring oil, gas and mining companies to publish payments to foreign governments, so that local people will have transparency with their sale of their natural resources.
- Join the #ONEMum Twitter party at 12:30 on Tuesday 10 Apr to support #Letsthrive – Come to learn about why we need to support anti-poverty programmes and what they actually achieve! Find out more
- Blog about being a ONE Mum or ONE Dad about your support and link back to the www.ONE.org site and
- Stay tuned to all of the ONE Mum Ambassadors for the latest activities – there’s going to be a fun meme and Linky, a video challenge and more!
Here’s what the ONE Mum Ambassadors are saying already:
Doing It All for Aleyna: We don’t want your money, we want your VOICE
Kate on Thin Ice: Not all the news out of Africa is bad news
Jenography.net: Do charity initiatives really make a difference?
Play Activities: The voice of #ONEmums
Mummy from the Heart: Failure to thrive – at home and abroad
And here’s a video that will get you motivated, with a powerful observation:
About Jennifer Howze
Jennifer Howze is the co-founder of BritMums. She blogs about travel, family and London life at Jenography.net. Previously, she wrote the Alpha Mummy blog at The Times and as a journalist has contributed to The Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Wall Street Journal, Travel & Leisure, Budget Travel, CNN.com, Allure, SELF and Premiere, among others. She won The Maggie Award from the Planned Parenthood Federation of America for a health article in Seventeen magazine.
I went to Edinburgh to protest when the G8 summit was up there. Feels like a lifetime ago now. Fingers crossed your party increases awareness xx
Fab to hear you were there on the frontline. Have you signed up to ONE and can you write a blog post to spread the word further do you think?
Cheers Mich x