Girl, Take the Lead! by Yolanda Canny

May 03, 2023 68. Mothers’ Day Movement 2023: Addressing Global Maternal Mortality

Dominika Turkcan, from Mothers’ Day Movement (MDM)

joins Yo in this episode. The Mothers' Day Movement is an organization that grew out

of a column in The New York Times by Nicholas Kristof, where he made the case

for moving the apostrophe in Mother’s Day so it honors not just one mother, but

underserved mothers everywhere. It advocates to shift a portion of Mother’s Day

gift giving to a carefully selected charity each year in honor of the women or

person they love.

Since 2011, the group has raised over $900,000, in women's health, education, infant and maternal

mortality, clean water, and human trafficking, and has been featured in The New

York Times, Ms. Magazine, and NPR.

During the episode we explored what happened in 2022 with Kenya Connect and their

plans for 2023 with their beneficiary, Saving Mothers, a global non-profit dedicated to eradicating preventable

maternal deaths and birth-related complications among marginalized women.

Here are the 3 Takeaways from the Episode:

1. For the price of a bouquet of flowers, we can save a life by donating to MDM.

2. Currently in the United States, Black women are 3 to 4 times more

likely to suffer a pregnancy-related death than white women. Specifically in

NYC, Black mothers are 9X more likely to die giving birth. Yet, 80% of these

deaths are preventable.

3. Our donation to MDM can help achieve Saving

Mothers’ vision of a world where every woman – regardless of her ethnicity or socioeconomic status – has

access to quality reproductive healthcare services, and receives proper medical

attention for complications of pregnancy and childbirth.

We hope you’ll enjoy this episode!

As mentioned in the episode:

Ep. 14 Mothers’ Day Movement 2022

Aftershock on Hulu Film

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k63RC0rJEd8

PBS Film: https://www.birthingjustice.com/watch/

SerenaWilliams Saved Her Own Life

MDMSaving Mothers Panel

Mother’s Day 2023 Saving Mothers campaign:

http://www.mothersdaymovement.org/2023-beneficiary-coming-soon

Donation Link to Mothers’ Day Movement

Events Coming Up:

Mother's Day Campaign

(Mother's Day is May 14th this year)

Womb bus visit on May 6th, 2023

More about Dominika:

She currently works as the Director of Research at an organization focused on the economic equity of

Americans across the lifespan through retirement. With over a decade of experience spanning the private and

public sectors, her work focuses on how various socioeconomic factors affect

diverse segments of the US population. Since 2016, she has been active pro-bono consultant and team

leader for PennPAC, working with University of Pennsylvania alumni who donate their expertise and

time to nonprofit consulting. She is a Partner at the Mothers’ Day Movement and a member of Soroptimist International.

Ways you can contact Mothers’ Day Movement:

[email protected]

Website

www.mothersdaymovement.org

IG:

https://www.instagram.com/mothersdaymovementmdm/

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/mothersdaymovementMDM

Ways to reach Yo:

[email protected]

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