Jen from World Moms Blog heads to Uganda with Shot@Life

All the way from Uganda where she is visiting as part of the first-ever delegation of Shot@Life Champions; Jennifer Burden, Founder of World Moms Blog is guest posting today!!!!! I am thrilled because Jen is my Social Good idol, she highlights so many important issues that affect mothers and children. To learn more just read on……..

I don’t think I’ve met anyone more enthusiastic in the cyberworld than Sarah! Sarah and I first met when she sent me a request to guest post on World Moms Blog about her Preeclampsia Walk. We’ve been online friends ever since and hope to meet up this year in person!

World Moms Blog writes from over 24 countries on motherhood, culture, human rights and social good. I founded the website in 2010, and just this past year we were listed by Forbes Woman in their “Top 100 Websites for Women 2012.” We initiate conversation around how women are doing things around the world and we also advocate for the children who need it most. Our advocacy for vaccinations for children in the developing world has led to me being invited on a delegation with the UN Foundation’s Shot@Life campaign to observe UNICEF’s programs in Uganda. I’m actually on the plane en route as I write this, and I am honored to represent the 60+ contributors who make up World Moms Blog!

The purpose of the journey is to experience UNICEF’s Child and Family Health Days, where they are making a difference in the child mortality rate there by providing children with Vitamin A tablets to help prevent blindness, polio and measles immunizations, deworming tablets to those who need them and insecticide treated bed nets to help prevent malaria. They will also be checking children for malnutrition.

We will be traveling in UN vehicles with UN staff. I can’t wait to report back from the field soon!

It was a difficult decision to leave my 5-year old and 19-month old daughters behind to take the one week trip across the Atlantic to Africa. I miss them so much already! But, I hope that this is just a brief, worthwhile, interruption in my life as a stay-at-home mom and theirs as my children. No doubt, the trip will lead to more local advocacy for vaccinations for children who need them most. The emotional part of the journey is no easy mountain to climb when a mom has to leave her kids behind.I can do this, I can do this…

For more on the trip this week, you can follow on Twitter using the hashtag #vaccineswork and also by following the Shot@Life blog. And head to the World Moms Blog Facebook page for my daily personal pictures from Uganda this week!

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Jennifer Burden is the Founder and Managing Editor of World Moms Blog, which writes about global motherhood, culture, social good and human rights. World Moms Blog currently writes from over 20 countries, has over 50 bloggers, is a volunteer effort and was listed by Forbes Woman as one of the “Top 100 Website for Women 2012.” Jennifer is also the stay-at-home mother to two young girls, a UN Foundation’s Shot@LIfe campaign Champion, an advocate for #ONEMoms and the creator of the “GAVI Global Tea Party” for advocation for life-saving vaccinations for children in the developing world. Her writing has been featured by Shot@Life, PATCH and the Huffington Post.

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