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.
Happy Mothering Sunday all you Mum's out there!
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