Mother2Mother - network for vulnerable mothers

Hi friend,

We are delighted to welcome Vera as a part-time Mother2Mother network coordinator in February. Vera is working hard to keep the network vibrant and full of relevant information while engaging with the members. Currently, the network has nearly 70 members, and we are hoping to increase the figure this year to over 100.

If you wish to become a member, or know anyone who is interested to find well-researched information about motherhood, child care, wellbeing, mental and physical health of mothers and to share experiences with other mothers, please join us and become a member  - it is free and easy to do. You can find more information here: https://www.mother2mother.online/

Thank you for your support and care,

Best wishes,

Romi's Way Team

Hello friend,

Thank you again for supporting our Mother2Mother project! We are excited to share, that after a few months of break (as we took the decision to support Ukrainian orphans and deciated our personnel and funding resources for that), we are now delighted to report that 2023 will be BIG for our mother-to-mother network. We have secured funds for a part-time coordinator to look after the network, its members and the contecxt for 12-months from 1st February 2023 onwards. With a dedicated person in place, we are aiming to engage with our mama-community effectively, aiming to have at least 200 member-profiles (currently 64) on the network, and ensure the network has a rich source of information to share (reading materials & courses - all free for the members), and facilitiating opportunities for the mamas to chat for peer support.

Watch this space for 2023 - please pass the word to any mother who would like to connect with other mothers, either as a one who has 'seen it all' and wants to help others, or as someone who is overwhelmed by challenges mamahood& our demanding world can create.

For now, we thank you sincerely for making this possible, and look forward to building the network forward from here.

Kind regards,
Sari Bernardo - CEO, Romi's Way

Dear friend,

Firstly, we again sincerely thank you for your support and kindness to support mothers to empower themselves.

Our Mother2Mother online platform is now completed and set up, having language options in English and Portuguese. Before we are publishing the platform (in September 2022), we are seeking materials that would already be translated to Ukrainian, in order to support many mothers in need and been overwhelmed by the Ukrainian crisis. We truly feel being a mother is the hardest job in the world, and doing this in a conflict setting is unbelievably challenging.

Why we all need to invest on mothers around the world, is because mothers are the engines fuelling our future generation with love, values, skills, compassion and presence that will be imprinted to children's lives forever. Investing on mothers, means investing on future of our planet and all live on it.

With this, we encourage you to support, empower and love all mothers around you,

With warm wishes and thanks

Sari Bernardo - CEO, Romi's Way

Dear Friend,

Our team has been working hard to connect with organisations in Poland who are working with Ukrainian mothers and children, and who would be able to provide materials in Ukrainian language to the Mother2Mother network. This network is to connect mothers globally (currently materials are collected in English and Portuguese, and now additionally in Ukranian) and to provide learning mateirals related to motherhood, child care, women's health and coping as a mother in these challenging times we are living. It also allows mothers to connect and chat in safe, non judgemental enviroment and get peer support from eath other.

We are hoping to publish the network in May 2022, and are now working hard to collect essential materials to support Ukrainian mothers to cope with the trauma, heartbreaks and challenges while raising their children.

Your support is so warmly welcomed and at this stage all support will be directed towards the translation or coordination efforts with the Polish NGO partners to gather the mateirials and then spreading the word to connect with the mothers.

Huge thanks for your kindness,

Sari Bernardo - CEO, Romi's Way

This Giving Tuesday help us support the ones with the hardest job in the world: mothers! In 2021 Romi’s Way started the Mother2Mother project to support and empower vulnerable mothers and their children from Coimbra, Portugal. We need your help to keep this project going and reach as many mothers as possible.