Fellows & Editors
Chrysula Winegar
- Trip:
- Mozambique 2014
- Affiliation:
- Global Moms Challenge
- Country:
- Mozambique
- Year:
- 2014
- Find me on:
Chrysula Winegar is the community manager for the Global Moms Challenge and #GivingTuesday and founder of When You Wake up a Mother. She was a Babble Top 25 Blogger for Social Good and has a passion for new media and the power it can wield as a positive force in the world. You can find her around the web at the Huffington Post, United Nations Foundation, MomsRising and elsewhere. With years of experience in traditional and digital marketing, Winegar’s career has spanned the globe across the consumer goods, finance, professional services, and philanthropy sectors. She is the founder of boutique digital strategy and project management agency Wake Up World Communications, the mother of four children, and a passionate advocate on women and children's issues.
Stories
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Getting Vaccines Where Kids Need Them Most
Vaccines ensure kids like these cheeky young boys can be healthy and thrive beyond their fifth birthdays. {image-1} Vaccines in Mozambique are manufactured overseas and shipped to a national warehouse for distribution...
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Persistence Pays Off: How Health Workers Are Saving Their Communities
{image-1} Baby Ava* is HIV-positive. Her mother was frightened and in denial about her own HIV diagnosis so she dropped out of treatment early in the process. Ava’s mother is...
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Under An African Sky
It has been too long since I’ve been under an African sky. More than 25 years have passed since last I breathed in this amazing continent. I left her with South...
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Travel Log: Nurse, Mother, Change-Maker
Luisa Notta has been a nurse for 10 years now. She is based in the children’s wing of Manhiça Hospital. The pediatric section has 32 beds. In the height of...
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Anything for My Child To Be Healthy
{image-1} Felismina walked three hours to Moamba Hospital to get 10-month-old Shirlei weighed, and some medicine for a persistent cough. She was tired and wanted the wait to be over so she...
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Caring for Moms and Kids in Mozambique
When my children are sick, I take them down the street to my pediatrician. It was a little harder when we lived in New York City – that involved a subway and...
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