One of the things I have to write about the Pampers Mommy Blogger Event was meeting the CEO of Unicef Caryl Stern. Pampers and Unicef have teamed together to rid the world of tetanus.

I’ll admit, before this, I didn’t see the big deal. We all get vaccinated, so you don’t even think about tetanus. However, after watching the

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With mother's day fast approaching I like to reminisce about some of the funnier things that have happened with my mother who is known for putting her foot in her mouth whether she believes it or not. Some of her verbal assaults have caused me to refuse to let her ever meet any of the men I date for fear that she will send the

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Noy talks of an experience she had as a child of leaving her mother to go off and play with some other children. When they got to their pay area at the family farm they had a good time until Noy saw her mother dressed in a floral skirt leaning on a tree. Noy wanted to run to her, but knew something wasn't right. She got scare

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Not one of us walked away from our visit with UNICEF USA’s CEO Caryl Stern unaffected by her descriptions of the thousands of preventable neonatal and maternal deaths from Tetanus, a totally preventable disease. The cost of a single vaccine? Five cents. There was no question we weren’t going to do something about it.

Every

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Yes, YOU, you right there, reading this site. Do you have five cents? Your five cents can SAVE A LIFE. WOW, right? In poor countries like Angola, women give birth on dirt floors and then their umbilical cords are cut with knives made from a piece of sugarcane pulled right out of the ground. Do you know what lives in dirt? TETAN

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Tetanus? Is that even a thing anymore? Who’s ever heard of someone who has tetanus? Not me.

Well, until I went to Cincinnati. Until I met (!) the President & CEO of US Fund for UNICEF, Caryl Stern. Until I saw the video diary of Bryan McCleary, Director of External Relations of P&G and his trip with UNICEF to Angola, Africa.

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