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Huddling for 2010: Mothers Day Every Day Breakfast with Congress

This past Friday, December 4th, White Ribbon Alliance and CARE’s Mothers Day Every Day campaign brought together an impressive, bipartisan group of Congressional leaders and policy influencers to discuss global maternal and newborn health at a breakfast in Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Dining Room. Together, members of the Mothers Day Every Day Advisory Committee and key legislative staff engaged in a productive discussion about how to accelerate progress on maternal and newborn health in 2010.


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Mothers Day Every Day co-chair Secretary Donna Shalala led a conversation about improving global maternal health services to save the lives of half a million women and newborns per year. Mothers Day Every Day Advisory Committee members helped lead a poignant conversation with the legislative staff writing maternal health legislation in the House and Senate. Among other high-profile attendees, Mothers Day Every Day Advisory Committee members present included Anita McBride, Tammy Haddad, Maria Cino, Mark Dybul, Mike McCurry and Christy Turlington Burns. Turlington Burns also brought with her a trailer of her upcoming documentary "No Woman, No Cry,” which highlights through personal stories the successes and challenges to global maternal health, which she showed to open the breakfast conversation. 
They were joined by legislative staff representing the offices of maternal health champions Senators Chris Dodd (D-CT) and Dick Durbin (D-IL), House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Representatives Howard Berman (D-CA), Lois Capps (D-CA), Rosa DeLauro (D-CA), Mark Kirk (R-IL) and Adam Smith (D-WA), as well as special guest, Mark Green, former Ambassador to Tanzania, Member of Congress and now director of Malaria No More’s Policy Center. 

They were joined by legislative staff representing the offices of maternal health champions Senators Chris Dodd (D-CT) and Dick Durbin (D-IL), House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Representatives Howard Berman (D-CA), Lois Capps (D-CA), Rosa DeLauro (D-CA), Mark Kirk (R-IL) and Adam Smith (D-WA), as well as special guest, Mark Green, former Ambassador to Tanzania, Member of Congress and now director of Malaria No More’s Policy Center.