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Jun 1, 2011

Christy Turlington Burns: I’m Committed to My Work, but Torn About Leaving My Kids

In her third of blog post for TODAY Moms, supermodel-turned-activist-turned-director Christy Turlington Burns discusses the balancing act it takes to be a mom and travel the world…

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Jun 24, 2011

Back to Bangladesh: Day 5

On our final day in Bangladesh we set out to visit a Grameen Village Bank north of Dhaka city in Dhaladia, Rajendrupur. Grameen Bank was created by Bangladesh’s legendary Nobel Peace Laureate, Professor Mohamed Yunnus in 1976 who set out to become, as the title of the book about his…

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Jun 22, 2011

Back to Bangladesh: Day 3

We started our day at Dhaka Medical College’s teaching hospital where we learned more about one of the most common pregnancy-related morbidities (or disabilities) that poor women endure in childbirth; obstetric fistula. An obstetric fistula is when a woman suffers an obstructed…

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Jun 20, 2011

Back to Bangladesh: Day 1

Two and a half years ago, I traveled to Bangladesh to film for my documentary, NO WOMAN, NO CRY. A year after the film’s completion and world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2010, I have finally returned. This was the first country we visited while filming but the last to…

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Jun 29, 2011

Report Finds Variations In Approach to Women and Girls Across Global Health Initiative Countries

A new report from the Kaiser Family Foundation assesses how countries are responding to a U.S. Global Health Initiative (GHI) principle that addresses women, girls…

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Jun 21, 2011

Back to Bangladesh: Day 2

We got up early to beat the infamous Dhaka traffic and headed Northeast to Narshingdhi to visit a few CARE projects that focus on educating and involving the families of pregnant women as well as the community to prevent maternal deaths in this region.

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Jun 23, 2011

Back to Bangladesh: Day 4

We got up early (again) to brave the Dhaka traffic — since there’s no apparent way to beat it — and headed southwest out of the city to Matlab for a day with ICDDR,B. It’s a mouthful of an acronym but an incredible organization that conducts invaluable research, as well as service…

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Jun 6, 2011

Model, Mom & Moviemaker

Raising kids can certainly be a struggle — but birthing them may truly be the biggest struggle of all. Worldwide, one woman dies every 90 seconds from pregnancy and childbirth complications; 90% of those deaths are preventable. And perhaps shockingly, women in the U.S. are far from…

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Jun 16, 2011

This Father’s Day Support the LifeWrap Program

Father’s Day is Sunday, June 19th!

Support the LifeWrap Program in honor of a father to help support families around the globe. Donate by Friday June 17th and a beautiful Ecard will be sent to the honoree on your behalf…

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