30.03.21
This recent report on NCI, a new Cote d’Ivoire television channel, highlights the plight of single African mothers, who battle through life with an almost incomprehensible resilience and fortitude in the face of no legal protection and absentee fathers. There are no statistics available to give a clear picture of the extent of the problem but there are many such forgotten yet courageous women, not just in Cote d’Ivoire but right across the African continent
This moving news story follows three single Ivorian mothers, Meliane, Anna-Renée and Vanessa, recording their individual economic, social and familial challenges. What they have in common is motherhood – and the overriding need to care for their children – sacrificing any personal and individual satisfaction.
The report rightfully calls these women ‘the fighters’ because what they manage to achieve despite the odds is nothing short of heroic.
Our associate member AJAD MMM for years has concentrated on improving the status of teenage mothers and their fatherless children, as well as the protection of orphans in Cote d’Ivoire.
This NGO has set up a multi-skill learning centre for isolated mothers, with funds from NEW LIFE/KING BAUDOUIN in Belgium, and provides follow-up support to achieve real empowerment. The mothers find solace and comfort there. AJAD MMM also provides additional “mother-to-mother” support through the “AJAD families” who welcome some of these young mothers, and also occasional fathers, who agree to act as a father figure to the children. Fostering a father-child relationship provides a safer and more secure environment for their education.
View more information on AJAD here
11.10.23
UN Geneva, Human Rights Council - Entitled ‘Centrality of care and support from a human rights perspective’, this landmark resolution was presented by the governments of Argentina, Iceland, Mexico
20.06.23
It was by all accounts, a remarkable gathering of global peacemakers. They came from all over the world to lend their voice and support to the message of the Conference:
09.10.23
In June this year, the European Union (EU) Commission announced a new high-priority initiative to address the mental health of all Europeans.
27.02.24
UN Geneva, Human Rights Council - Passy Mubalama, Activist and Executive Director of Aidprofen, our associate member in the Democratic Republic of Congo, was one of the 4 Civil Society speakers selected to addr
24.10.23
A look back at our LP4Y event in New York
13.09.23
18-19 September 2023 sees the convening of the SDG Summit taking place at the UN Headquarters in New York. Here at MMM, we believe it is time to re-commit and put mothers at the centre of our efforts to realize
07.09.23
MMM Network Coordinator Sarah Krimi has been talking to many of our grass roots members, to get to know them better and to understand why mothers matter to their work. As Benoît Bichon, President & Founder of
14.04.23
Make Mothers Matter, together with the city of Ypres, and its grass roots partners Mothers for Peace, Mama Kivu and the Vrouwenraad, is organizing an international peace Conference Women at the Peace Table, whi
04.03.23
Like thousands of others, Razia Arefi, who had been working as a field director for our associate member Mothers for Peace in Afghanistan, fled the country in August 2021 after the Taliban takeover and became a