Parents react to stories of mothers from around the world on Mother's Day

Published on: 08/05/2022

This Mother's Day, we invited parents into our studio to read stories of mothers from around the world. Watch what happens next…

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Empowering and investing in midwives could save millions of lives each year

Midwives in Morocco, like Amina Al Ammari, played a critical role in responding to the pandemic while also tending to pregnant women, new mothers and newborns. © UNFPA Morocco

04 May 2022

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Global health systems must invest in midwives

05 May 2022

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5 things to know about motherhood

Mother’s Day is celebrated around the world throughout the year. In Somalia, above, the day falls in March. © Tobin Jones for UNFPA

03 May 2022

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In her words: A heavy monsoon, a flooded hospital and twins on the way. A midwife’s story in Bangladesh

Shakila Parvin, a midwife in the refugee camps of Cox's Bazar, helped a woman pregnant with twins deliver during heavy flooding that submerged the health facility's maternity ward, knocked out power and destroyed or damaged equipment and supplies. © UNFPA Bangladesh

07 April 2022

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Midwives ensure life-saving reproductive health care for women returning to Afghanistan

Midwife Zul Haja displays some of the reproductive health care supplies she provides for women at the Zero Point clinic in Afghanistan's Kandahar Province, on the border with Pakistan. © UNFPA/Stenly Sajow

31 March 2022

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8 myths about unintended pregnancy debunked

At 14, Dankay Kanu (right, with a mentor from the 2YoungLives NGO, which helps pregnant girls in Sierra Leone continue their education and find employment) got pregnant by an older man who refused to wear a condom then denied paternity. Though she quit school for a time, she has since returned while raising her now-two-year-old son, Ishmael, alone. "To be a mother at this age is not really easy," she said, "but that will enable me to become stronger." @ UNFPA/Michael Duff

05 May 2022

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Crisis after the storm: needs soar for women and girls in typhoon-ravaged Philippines

A UNFPA staff member walks to a damaged health centre in Siargao Island, Surigao Del Norte on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines ©UNFPA Philippines

03 February 2022

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