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Mothers' Union Worldwide
Campaigning for Childhood
Mothers' Union is commited to working with all members equally. A programme called Church and Community Development Programme (CCMP) ensures that communities work to address issues they have identified from their own resources. Family Life Projects as well as Literacy and Financial Education enable members to take greater respnsibility for the needs of their family and community. We are glad to be partners and seek to learn new ways of working in our own communities too,
The Wheels Appeal and during Lent Count Your Blessings are two very different ways to support this work.
Supporting Children affected by imprisonment​
Mothers' Union believes that children should be valued as children, not consumers. Yet marketers target children's natural inexperience in order to reach the household purse. Giving children the message that they are what they own, rather than valuing them for who they are, can negatively affect their wellbeing.
Mothers' Union launched the Bye Buy Childhood campaign in August 2010 to challenge the commercialisation and sexualisation of childhood.
Our objectives are to:
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Challenge children and their families to think about their consumer habits and to empower families to manage the commercial world
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Engage with the commercial world to encourage responsible advertising and retail practices
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Influence government to take action on the issue.
- See more at: http://www.byebuychildhood.org including
2015 Impact Report and an Engagement Pack
When parents go to prison, their children also partake of their punishment, often struggling with poverty, shame, anger, abandonment, and loneliness. Through thousands of churches and Mothers' Union members, Prison Fellowship’s Angel Tree programme delivers Christmas gifts, the Gospel, and a personal message of love to children on behalf of the Mum or Dad behind bars.
Members in Salisbury Diocese contributed to the provision of gifts for families of prisoners at Erlestoke Prison in 2013. Sufficient funds were raised to provide for Christmas 2014 and included gifts for prisoners at Guy's Marsh prison as well.
Working with the United Nations
Mothers' Union had representatives at the UNCSW in New York this March to lobby the United Nations on the agreements that are being made on the Millenium Development Goals, In particular, we will be drawing attention to the new goals which have an even stronger focus on tackling gender inequality. Mothers' Union will work to ensure that tackling violence against women and girls remains high on the agenda, as well as equal rights to education, land, property and inheritance; and that governments address the sexist and sexualised way women and girls are treated in the media.
This year, Mothers' Union is participating in 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence. This global campaign raises international awareness of violence against women and girls (VAWG) each year, from 25th November to 10th December. 16 Days is an opportunity to show solidarity against gender-based violence; and provides a platform for individuals and organisations to highlight their work and speak out against VAWG.
Marriage
Salisbury Court Café
2016 BIC Wedding Show 19-21 February
Margaret Morris and her team promote Christian marriage on the MU Stand at the Bournemouth Wedding Show. Thank you to Margaret and her helpers for headlining the Mothers’ Union aims and objectives in promoting and supporting married life.
Court Café
Following vision and negotiation a cafe at Salisbury Court has been opened by Mothers' Union to support those attending the court, particular, the family court.
BBC Wiltshire Sound visited the newly opened Court Café in Salisbury Law Courts on 18 February. During the visit, members of the Chaplaincy Team and Mothers’ Union were invited to describe how the Court Café came about and how it currently functions. (Photograph) The Court Café project leader, Joanna Woodd, and Rosie Stiven, Diocesan President, at the Court Café.
