With Mother’s Day just around the corner, all of us at LitWorld are thinking about the women in our lives who have inspired us.
This includes celebrating all of the moms, caretakers, and female role models who have strengthened us and shaped us into the people we are today. Their love and support is what keeps us going, and in the days of COVID-19, is more important than ever.
LitWorld Superhero Charlotte (center) with mom & sister in Rwanda
To show our appreciation, the LitWorld team is excited to share these truly amazing stories featuring some of the moms and women leaders from around the world! We are so proud to have them as part of our LitWorld family, and hope they help inspire you for this upcoming Mother’s Day.
Jessica
Art of a Child, Uganda
All of our LitMoms at Art of a Child in Uganda are working together to find new ways of supporting their families throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. One amazing example is Jessica, who has begun making her own protective masks and selling them at a low cost to others in the community. By undertaking this initiative, she is able to support her family throughout the crisis, support public health, and act as an inspiration to other women, mothers, and daughters!
Ada Raquel Bonilla Rodrigues
Luceros del Amanecer, Nicaragua
In addition to raising her own son, Mateo, mother and mentor Ada Raquel also works tirelessly as a LitClub mentor at the Laguna Negra LitClub program for pregnant teens. She speaks with and empowers these girls, showing them just how bright their futures can be. Even as she’s expecting her second child, Ada Raquel visits local schools and runs her own weekly radio show, teaching young girls about safe sex and early pregnancy prevention.
Phares Kafula
Go Ye Therefore, Zambia
Using the entrepreneurial skills she learned at Moms LitClub, Phares and the other LitMoms in Zambia have started a community garden outside a local school. They sell what they grow back to the community, earning both financial security for their families and valuable self-confidence for themselves. “We have learnt how to achieve our goals,” says Phares. “They say that an opportunity knocks once. This is that opportunity. We are so grateful and thankful. We are changed persons.”
Madiha Istiak
Seeds of Hope, Pakistan
Madiha attends the Mom’s Sewing LitClub at Seeds of Hope in Pakistan. Her formal education ended at primary school, but she loves sewing and is always eager to contribute during club activities, readily offering help to the other LitMoms.
LitClub has boosted Madiha’s confidence greatly, and she now realizes the importance of education - especially for girls. “I’m happy because I’m useful” she says. “LitClub helped me realize my worth and be productive in society.”
Seeds of Hope Foundation, Pakistan
For their 2019 Mother’s Day celebration, moms from the Seeds of Hope Foundation in Pakistan visited the Najina sewing center where they practiced sewing skills, along with various activities focused around self-empowerment and basic literacy activities from the Mom’s Club. The year before, they celebrated Mother’s Day with their children, many of whom are also enrolled in Seeds of Hope, who honored their moms with beautiful letters of appreciation that they wrote and illustrated themselves.
If you want to join us in celebrating these incredible women in our lives, why not make a donation in someone’s honor as your Mother’s Day gift? You’ll be making a difference for women everywhere by helping us provide moms with life-changing access to literacy and entrepreneurship training, making them become leaders of both their families and communities. You will also receive a special virtual postcard that can be printed or shared online, making it the perfect present for anyone you donate in honor of - near or far!