While in Uganda I met a lady called Melissa. We only met briefly but I feel I know her so well through her blog. Her adoption story of her little girl Mercy was a little out of the ordinary and she spent many months in Uganda waiting for little Mercy's VISA so they could fly home.
Now back in the USA, Melissa has set up a fundraising blog in honour of Mercy's birth mom, who sadly died during Mercy's birth. You can read all about Melissa and her new work, called Mercy for Mama's at http://www.mercyformamas.com/
This new initiative buys a simple care package that saves lives. The video below is taken off Melissa's blog and explains everything much better than I ever could. The cost of each care package is $7 (roughly £5). The mama kit contains things we take for granted, but it saves birth mom's lives and helps deliver new borns into our world safely. It is such a precious gift to these women.
I know you may never meet these women, but from giving £5, you KNOW you helped bring a new baby into the world safely. What a wonderful gift and privilege to us who can give.
So, this Mothering Sunday, why not spend £5 in honour of your Mum, Grandmother, or any other special lady in your life, and buy a mama kit? What a wonderful legacy to know you brought a baby safely into the world. And for such little cost.
You can donate directly through the site, or if you'd like to send your's along with mine, and see me, feel free to pass me for £5 and you have my word that it will go to the cause and buy a mama kit for a very needy mama in Uganda.
Someone asked me last week who the family was we talked about while on our Cuban holiday. They are a wonderful family that we met on previous holidays in the country. While my parents were there one year, they made such a good friendship with the couple, they were then asked if they would become their first born child's Godparents. Such an honour for them.
And so meet our little Cuban Princess - my parents God-Daughter: Aniella
New friends!
With little sister
Isn't she beautiful?
No language barrier could stop these girls having fun together!
And so this is the first post about the topic of Vulnerable Girls across the world. The link may not be very clear at the moment, but as we delve into the topic, I want you to keep little Aniella and her sister, Annaly, in your thoughts.
