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Mar 10, 2014

Secrets to Your Success: Christy Turlington Burns

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Christy Turlington Burns, model and founder of Every Mother Counts, says, “You don’t have to be a mother to care about mothers. We’ve all come into the world the same way.” Christy believes every woman should have the chance to…

Every Mother Counts in Every Mother Counts

May 15, 2013

Secrets to Your Success: Christy Turlington Burns

Christy Turlington Burns, model and founder of Every Mother Counts, says, “You don’t have to be a mother to care about mothers. We’ve all come into the world the same way.”

Christy believes every woman should have the chance to survive…

Every Mother Counts in Every Mother Counts

Mar 7, 2013

Fresh Perspectives at the CARE Conference

When you attend a lot of conferences focused on a specific subject, after a while, a lot of the information you already know.

There’s always fresh stuff, updated information and inspiring speakers to re-rev your engine and keep you engaged, but it’s never…

Every Mother Counts in Every Mother Counts

Jan 31, 2013

Amy Brenneman’s Mother-to-Mother Connection

Despite our focus on global reach and far away places, I’m reminded time and again how very small the world is.

Despite our focus on global reach and far away places, I’m reminded time and again how very small the world is. My…

Every Mother Counts in Every Mother Counts

Oct 1, 2012

Let Girls Be Girls — Why International Day of the Girl is Important

A handful of girls roll out the front doors of their middle school dressed in colorful high-tops, t-shirts and jeans. They hop into the waiting car, switch on “their” radio station and talk about dance class…

Every Mother Counts in Every Mother Counts

Jun 20, 2012

Every Partner Counts: CARE

About a year after I became a mom, I got a call from my childhood best friend who now lives in Atlanta. She wanted to connect me with her Aunt who had a friend who worked at CARE, and asked if I would be interested in meeting with them to learn about the work they were doing to…

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Apr 20, 2012

I Would Not Have Survived If I Lived in a Rural Community

Model, maternal health advocate and supermom Christy Turlington Burns was in Chicago, Ill., this week for a film screening of her documentary “No Woman, No Cry”at the Gene Siskel Film Center, ABC News reports.

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Jan 2, 2012

Happy Birthday to Me (and My Mom)

Forty-three years ago my mother went into labor for the second time. It was either very late New Year’s Day or very early on the second day of 1969 depending on how you looked at it but either way- it was a full week past her due date when my mom woke up knowing it was…

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Jul 27, 2011

Christy and Kaosar Afsana of BRAC Write an Op-Ed for the Daily Star News Bangladesh

It is very late at night in early 2001. Fifteen year old Mitali* lies writhing in pain in the corner of a dingy room deep within one of Dhaka’s overcrowded slums. She is several hours…

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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…