The Mother & Child Project
Subtitle: raising our voices for health and hope
By: compiled by Hope Through Healing Hands ; foreword by Kay Warren ; preface by Melinda Gates
Contributors: Grant, Amy, author of introduction; Hope Through Healing Hands
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780310341611
Subjects: Health and hygiene; Public health; Religious aspects; Maternal health services; Pregnancy; Maternal and infant welfare; Mother and child; Mortality
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-238).
Table of contents: title: Foreword:; title: Choosing joy for mothers and children  -- Kay Warren -- Preface:; title: All lives have equal value  -- Melinda Gates -- Introduction:; title: Third world women  -- Amy Grant -- Part 1:; title: Maternal and child health: how healthy timing and spacing of pregnancy saves lives --; title: Mihret Gebrehiwot's story: Ethiopia --; title: A mama knows  -- Rachel Held Evans; title: Contraception is a pro-life cause in developing world  -- Bill Frist and Jenny Eaton Dyer; title: Family planning as a pro-life cause  -- Michael Gerson; title: Transforming the world  -- David Stevens; title: the burden we should share  -- Cathy R. Taylor; title: Baby free until 2013  -- James and Jena Lee Nardella; title: Women and girls' health  -- Phillip Nieburg; title: She counts  -- Shannon Trilli; title: New ideas, new opinions  -- Victoria Jennings; title: Who will take care of my children?  -- Elizabeth Styffe; title: A "big tent" approach  -- Kent R. Hill; title: Personal and professional reasons to be thankful for child spacing  -- Ray Martin; title: Why Christians should care about maternal health  -- Shepherd and Anita Smith; title: Contraception uncoupled  -- Joe McIlhaney; title: From mother to mother  -- Kimberly Williams-Paisley -- Part 2:; title: Strong mothers: the key to healthy families, communities, and nations --; title: Beryl Anyago's story: Kenya --; title: Helping women isn't just a "nice" thing to do  -- Hillary Clinton; title: Maternal health and the strategy for empowering women  -- Bruce Wilkinson; title: Better moms make a better world  -- Sherry Surratt; title: Healthy mothers create healthy societies, and a safer world  -- Kay Granger; title: How I became a maternal health advocate  -- Christy Turlington Burns; title: Family planning and linkages with US health and development goals  -- Janet Fleischman; title: Making dreams come true  -- Jennifer Nettles -- Part 3:; title: Other concerns: male involvement, child marriage, slavery, and orphan care --; title: Namatta Lillian's story: Uganda --; title: Kiran Awasthi's story: India --; title: What's so scary about smart girls?  -- Nicholas Kristof; title: Men as difference-makers  -- James Nardella; title: From the shade of an acacia tree  -- Dan Haseltine; title: Too young to wed  -- Cynthia Gorney; title: Child marriage and dowry deaths  -- Jimmy Carter; title: A promise to girls  -- Desmond Tutu and Ela Bhatt; title: Forced to confront the impossible  -- Christine Caine; title: Brothels, survival, and hope  -- Natalie Grant; title: Contraceptives in the developing world  -- Tony Campolo; title: Speaking up for other mothers  -- Tracie Hamilton; title: Every child deserves a family  -- Mary Beth Chapman -- Part 4:; title: Why maternal health matters to people of faith --; title: Dorine's story: Burundi --; title: The good Samaritan in the global village  -- Jim Wallis; title: The first-responder church  -- Santiago "Jimmy" Mellado; title: You just never know  -- Mike Glenn; title: Blessed for all generations  -- Dan Scott; title: What kind of people ought you to be?  -- Jennie Allen; title: On shame and stewardship  -- Scott Sauls; title: Sovereign over us  -- Michael W. Smith; title: The old new thing  -- Sarah Masen and David Dark; title: The village nearby  -- Debbie Dortzbach; title: Appendix: What you can do. --; title: How you can become an advocate --; title: How you can give: partners in maternal health.