In Honor of Mothers Across the Globe

Today is a day to honor mother’s across the globe, women who give new life and hope to the world. Women who raise future leaders, raise the motherless child of another like their own, protect and shield children’s lives with no thought to themselves, and women who give their lives sacrificing all to see that the lives of children are better than their own.

Photo: MAURO FERMARIELLO Caption: Mother looking after her child while she works in a sewing school in the Gulu region of Uganda.

Being a mother is undoubtedly the hardest job in the world, and many are handed additional burdens as the struggle to provide and care for their children in the face of conflict, poverty and natural disasters.  Many who are left to face the role of caring for their family alone; mothers who struggle to provide the basic necessities for their children; mothers who are forced to watch their innocent children suffer and die in the toils of war; mothers whose children are taken from their very arms from preventable diseases; mere girls turned into wives and mother’s before their time; and mothers who children are forced into a life of slavery as their sons and daughters are turned into soldiers, sexual commodities and to toil in harsh labor conditions.

Motherhood comes with both joy and heartache, and it is mothers who all too often bare the weight of the world.  It is for all mother’s across the globe that that we give thanks today…and everyday.  However let us give special consideration and thanks to those mother’s in countries of conflict and in developing nations, who undauntedly care and provide for their children in the face of countless hardships.