Tag Archives: For moms

Holiday gift guide: 30 meaningful gifts under $50

Posted on November 25, 2011 by Lindsey Talerico-Hedren in Gift Catalog

Does your holiday shopping list look anything like this? iPad 2: $499. Kindle Fire: $199. UGG boots: $150. Long lines. Busy parking lots. Good finds for $30 are now good finds for $50 — and it’s really a bargain if your $300 gift is reduced to $200 in a Black Friday sale. If this sounds familiar, you can save your anxiety and checkbook this year by giving a gift whose impact will last much longer than the latest version of that electronic device. Celebrate the true spirit of Christmas this year with a gift that can change lives. Use this as your guide to some meaningful (and inexpensive) holiday gifts from World Vision’s partners, our Gift Catalog, our U.S. programs...

Blessing #3: Compassionate kids

Posted on November 22, 2011 by James Addis in Conversations

10 ways to raise compassionate kids | World Vision blog

We’re counting our blessings each day this week in celebration of Thanksgiving. Blessing #3: The many compassionate and beautiful children who remind us every day what it means to have a child-like faith in a God who loves us. * * * The fun and sometimes frustrating thing about being a writer is that you never quite know what kind of story you are going to get. Sometimes, great leads turn out to be disappointing. Other times, what looks like a humdrum story turns out to have a twist that blows your socks off. So it was with a sense of nervous anticipation that I called Teresa and Carl Camera of Austin, Texas. I’d been asked to write a feature...

Giving Christmas away

Posted on November 14, 2011 by Guest blogger in Gift Catalog

Not too long ago, I received the kindest of emails from Marina, the famed Energizer Bunnies’ Mommy from the Energizer Bunnies’ Mommy Reports blog. Marina shared with me an idea she and another blogger had about using their social media influence to inspire readers to make Christmas meaningful for more than just their own children this year. This guest post from Marina (and this week’s series on Marina’s and Angie’s blogs) is a result of their desire to “give” Christmas to those less fortunate in this country and around the world this holiday season. Thank you, Marina and Angie! —Lindsey, World Vision Blog * * * Christmas is less than 50 days away. What’s on your child’s wish list? A...

What does 7-11 have to do with child and maternal health?

Posted on November 10, 2011 by Steve Reynolds in Causes

Watching the news or following blogs like this one the last couple of months may have you more curious about the international community’s efforts to improve child and maternal health world wide (or at least we hope so). This blog and our homepage have intentionally featured an ongoing focus on child and maternal health recently. Part of the reason is because of World Vision’s Child Health Now campaign that is dedicated to providing children worldwide with access to basic medical care, adequate nutrition, and disease prevention — all so that they can grow up healthy in their communities and avoid illness or death from preventable causes. Additionally, our partnership with the ABC News Million Moms Challenge is a focused effort...

A letter to the mothers and fathers of Bolivia

Posted on August 8, 2011 by Jana Melpolder, WV Bolivia blogger in Child Sponsorship, Stories

To the incredible mothers and fathers of Bolivia, This journey has been an opportunity to give a voice for the voiceless. To put a spotlight on the unseen. To shed light on what life is like through the eyes of Bolivians. I hope that I have shared and will continue to share your stories with the accuracy and thoughtfulness that they deserve. To the mothers who pray daily for the health and future of their children — you are the fortitude of your families. To the mothers who battle cultural discrimination because their children are born with disabilities — you are women of strength. To the mothers who took in children who were not their own because no one else...