It’s been a few days and I’m still so pleased with the Defenders of Love show on Wednesday. It was amazing because of all of the people who performed and donated their time and products to help raise money for the Brooklyn Young Mother’s Collective and to help promote the idea of being DEFENDERS!
It was an easy choice to choose this issue to DEFEND. Motherhood is the most sacred and important role that we have in our society and needs to be respected and supported whether the mother has a partner or not. Women are often marginalized in our society and women with children even more so. Today many women are struggling with debt and it’s even harder if you are a single mother trying to support your family.
The mission of The Brooklyn Young Mothers’ Collective is to break the cycle of generational poverty among pregnant and parenting low-income mothers by helping them actively engage in improving the conditions that impact their lives. We do this by providing comprehensive sexuality and reproductive health education, legal information and advocacy support. We also build leadership skills in young mothers and organize them to improve the response of community and government agencies in addressing their needs.
Here are a few other sites who Defend Single Mothers!
National Organization for Single Mothers
The Motherhood Project
Single Mom Seeking
Solo Mothers
Moms Rising
Single 2 Mother
There are so many ways for us to defend our rights by using our talents and skills! If we all work together – who knows what we can make happen!? I know what did happen on Wednesday- we created & shared a lot of Magic Passion Love with each other .. and this only means there’s more positive energy in the world! Thanks for being a part of it!
Defenders are world citizens who take action to support the well being of the planet and all of its inhabitants. Defenders are Free Thinkers! Trickydame & Tom 4 Prez are Defenders! Here are some other Defenders!
4 Comments
February 19, 2008 at 2:20 am
I love the idea of this. Definitely will give you some link love tomorrow. Today, I’m all cleaned out. Literally. I cleaned my house and now I have to sleep!
Great idea for a great cause.
February 20, 2008 at 1:36 am
OMG what a small world. You had Carla there!! How’s my favorite crazy Piccadilly? Tell her Cazzy says hi.
February 20, 2008 at 1:52 am
[...] women and their children the power, the skills, and the hope they need to succeed. Thanks go out to Trickydame, who pointed me to the organization after she participated in a Defenders of Love fundraising event [...]
September 10, 2009 at 3:19 am
Great Idea, I’m Jennifer Broadley and I would like to share some dynamic information and support on how to be a winning single parent, with strong, respectful relationships with your children and a comfortable, working relationship with your ex-partner.