Category Archives: I Can Do Anything

Helping Orphaned Girls Become Powerful Women

We’ve been doing this at Mother’s Fighting For Others for a long time now,  but we’ve not been saying it as clearly as we should have. We believe educating girls in developing countries is one of the keys to breaking the cycle of poverty and it’s not just our opinion. This is why we’re taking…

What we can learn from the poor

Imagine what it would be like to live on less than $2 per day.  That is what 40%  of the people in the world do. “Among these 2.7 billion, the poorest 1.1 billion were scraping by on less than one dollar per day” according to” Portfolios of the Poor…How the World’s Poor Live on 2$…

One Woman, One Idea & 100 Tons of Goods for Malawi Africa

      One trip to Malawi Africa and a visit to an orphanage in 2003 by a young woman has resulted in over 100 TONS of  “unwanted” goods being delivered to over 1000 schools and 120 community based organizations.  When I hear stories like this I am always in awe.  It never ceases to amaze…

I hope you dance!

         It started like any traditional birthday party.  My friend Jackie had hit one of the milestone years and her grown children (ages 27 and 29) had decided to give her a surprise party.  Knowing very few of her friends, I chatted politely for an acceptable amount of time and was ready…

Shaken

People come in and out of our lives everyday. There are those who just pass us by and we’ll never know them. Then there are those that will forever be a part of us. No matter what time of day or how busy we are, they are always there. You can be woken up from…