GWP honors these women, who are celebrated by their loved ones through our Mother’s Day Project!
Women of Shifting Ideas through Education of African Women, empowering girls to go to school rather than be raped, mutilated or married as adolescents
A mother and child in Nepal, served by job-skill cooperatives, photo taken by Karen Hodges
2012:
Barbara Roller Smith
Marjorie Miller
Ellen Miller
Mattie Jackson
Minva Reid
Doreen Myers
2011:
Helen Kiracofe Brubaker
Nellie Young
Una Barnhart
Ellen Miller
Marjorie Dilling
Growing Grounds, serving incarcerated mothers in Indiana
Jane and Nan in Southern Sudan, working with sewing cooperatives to strengthen families and communities
Minva Reid
2010:
Irma Overton
Mary Grove
Helen Kiracofe Brubaker
Minva Reid
Mary Elizabeth Bucher Hostetter
Shirley Marie Hummer Mader
Ellen Miller
Vinna Helstern
Ida Rae Rosenberger
Barbara Alley
Louise Erbaugh
Martha Knechel
Vera Johansen
2009:
Anna Baker
Barbara Alley
Louise Erbaugh
Louie Baldwin Rieman
Verda Gibbel
Vinna Helstern
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[...] Please view the mothers who are being honored in absentia this season! [...]