Liya Kebede Mother Quotations

We can't end poverty if we fail to save the lives of our world's mothers.

Children with healthy mothers are much more likely to survive childhood, attend school and live healthy, productive lives.

The message of our campaign is "Make every mother and child count". This campaign is not just about health. It is also a powerful call for radical progress in women's rights and the rights of their children. Too often, the health of mothers and children does not count. In too many parts of the world, they are forgotten.

What I love most about Mother's Day is that I am acknowledged and honored for being a mother.

When our mothers are alive and healthy, they do extraordinary things... like the mothers of Plaza de Mayo, who marched in Argentinean plazas, defying the military junta dictatorship and demanding the whereabouts of their abducted children... or the Liberian mothers who faced down civil war armed only with T-shirts and courage.