Imagine you have an infant in your care. You work a hard job all day, sweating down to your bones and working on your hands and knees. But it’s still not enough. It’s never enough.
There is no worse feeling than fearing that, despite how hard you work or how much love you give, you can’t provide for your loved ones.
Sadly, for mothers like Pabanbati, Alina and Bassira, this fear is their reality.
You are the thread Pabanbati needs to weave her family’s future.
Your loving support is woven throughout these beautiful, handmade mats.
Pabanbati couldn’t make ends meet. All she could provide for her family was a tiny hut with a dirt floor in rural Nepal.
“[There] wasn’t enough for food supplies...wasn’t enough for children’s education, wasn't enough for treatment when any of us fell ill,” Pabanbati recalls.
She couldn’t even manage to buy a bar of soap.
Pabanbati is a talented artist and loving mother. Determined to provide for her family, she used her gifts to weave beautiful pater mats made from bulrush plants. These mats are a staple in Nepalese homes and used for sleeping, sitting, or drying out seeds.
Your gift is the missing thread women like Pabanbati need!
While these mats are beautiful, they are backbreaking, time-consuming and unprofitable work. Pabanbati didn’t have any business training, modern tools or help with the labor.
You can help mothers like Pabanbati. Your compassion provides the tools, training and help they need to make this hard work more profitable AND allow them to earn a sustainable income to support their families.
Help mothers in Ukraine find certainty in uncertain times.
Alina lost a lot of weight from anxiety and exhaustion and still suffers from insomnia and tremors. Your caring heart can ease the worries of mothers like Alina, whose families have faced the heartbreak of war.
Just one day after Russia invaded Ukraine, Alina’s husband left for the front lines of battle.
Alina and their two young daughters, Olexandra and Sofia, were on their own.
With their town completely occupied, the girls' days went from carefree to fearful, and time playing outdoors was replaced with desperate running and hiding in the darkness.
Alina packed all she could into her car and left: no map, no resources and no plan.
“After we left, both my girls stopped talking,” Alina shares.
Alina clung to her traumatized daughters with the painful realization that she had nothing else but them…until your caring light delivered the first glimmer of hope.
She discovered a Women's Center and met mothers who, like her, had also lost everything. This safe, welcoming space that your love helped build offers art therapy for the girls and mental health services for Alina.
“We are all united now, I think, by the same disaster,” Alina says.
Life for Alina and her daughters is still difficult. Day cares and kindergartens are no longer operational. She has no family to help care for her children while she looks for work and her husband is at war.
When you share your blessings with a gift, you provide meals, safe shelter and support for mothers like Alina, who have no one else.
Supporting mothers makes families healthier.
You help mothers, like Bassira, find community, tools and training to support their babies (like sweet Mohammad you see here!)
Bassira is a loving mother in Niger who often cares for her three young children alone as her husband works far from home. She relies on her extended family to help her feed her children, especially her 6-month-old baby Mohammed.
While grateful, Bassira has always wanted to be able to provide for her children on her own.
Many mothers in Bassira’s community live in constant fear. Despite working hard to care for their families, babies are dying because mothers don’t have access to simple medications we often take for granted, like acetaminophen.
It is also difficult to get healthy, diverse foods to help their children grow, thrive and build their immune systems.
Your loving gifts can give mothers like Bassira the tools and training they need to provide for their families and help them stay healthy.
Around the world, mothers lie awake, worrying about how to feed their children. They pray for someone like you to share your blessings and bring hope.
Will you be the answer to these mothers’ prayers?
Thank you for your faithful service to mothers and families in need around the world.
