Thankfulfor: To Mama With Love
We can’t let this day go by without sending a special message out to all the mom’s out there. We also wanted to highlight a special organization that really offers a unique and generous way to show mothers around the world how much you care. The organization is called Epic Change - the program is called To Mama With Love. Here’s a letter from the founder, Stacey Monk:
In the US alone, $14.6B is spent annually on Mother’s Day for “stuff” that could just never say what’s in our hearts. What if instead, we all just unleashed that love on the world? How would it impact our world if we stopped using stuff as a surrogate for love? What if we invested that love to make the world a better place for Mamas & children everywhere?
This Mother’s Day, we aim to find out…
Last year, we created a site called To Mama With Love that invited people to change the future by changing the present they gave for Mother’s Day. Instead of giving a traditional gift, we invited people to share their love for their mamas in words, photos & video on the site, and invest the funds they’d have otherwise spent in a Mama who’s creating hope in the world.
People across the globe participated, love for hundreds of moms was shared, and nearly $20,000 USD was raised to build a home out of pure love for many of the children who attend Mama Lucy Kamptoni’s school in Arusha, Tanzania. This past week, we launched To Mama With Love for 2011 in honor of four remarkable women who are transforming our world, and in honor of all the amazing women across the globe who pour their love into each of us. This year, we aim to support Mama Lucy & three more changemakers from Afghanistan, Nepal, & the US who invest their hearts & lives in loving the world’s children & creating a better future for us all. Check out the video to learn more about Maggie, Suraya, Renu and Mama Lucy.
To Mama With Love was born from my love for a woman half the world a way who reminded me of all the lessons my own mom had taught me when I was growing up. She taught me how to hold onto hope when I’d all but given up. That hope is ours to create, that it never dies as long as we just hold onto it. She taught me that I am hope – and you are too. She taught me that even when we think we have nothing, love somehow finds a way.
My guess is there’s a woman in your life who’s taught you all these lessons & so many more. I hope you’ll share your love for her, and make an investment in the world’s women & children, at www.ToMamaWithLove.org this Mother’s Day. I truly believe that when, with wide-open hearts, we dare to share all the love we have in us, it just might change everything.
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