The best lesson that I've learned from my mother is that she just never accepted no for an answer and I think that's something that has stayed with me.
Liya Kebede
The best lesson that I've ...
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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.
Liya Kebede
Traveling around Ethiopia, I saw dozens of abandoned textile factories. People kept asking me to help them find work. So I thought I could make use of my experience in fashion to commercialize their products outside of Ethiopia.
Liya Kebede
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.
Liya Kebede
Children with healthy mothers are much more likely to survive childhood, attend school and live healthy, productive lives.
Liya Kebede
We can't end poverty if we fail to save the lives of our world's mothers.
Liya Kebede
