Dear Care and Feeding,
I am the mother of two beautiful little brown girls, ages 2 and 5. Daddy is Black, and I am as white as a mayonnaise sandwich. We started a dialogue about race with my oldest early on and are trying to teach her pride in her heritage and features. On her first day of preschool, she proudly presented me with a coloring page with a little girl with white skin and blond hair. I casually asked why she colored the girl that way, got a nonanswer, and warily chalked it up to coincidence. When I paid a little more attention, I noticed that she would make negative comments about her hair. In some games, she makes her character white with straight blond hair, and she always chooses the white Barbie. She has said she doesn’t like darker skin and that she “just wants to look different sometimes.” I understand wishing you looked a little different, but it set off alarm bells when I heard this. I asked her about it again, and we talked, but now she avoids the issue
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262,000 babies die yearly as poor women shun hospitals for traditional birth centres.
ENIOLA AKINKUOTU, who visited several traditional birth centres, narrates the conditions in which a majority of pregnant women in rural communities give birth
One-month old Patience Okon may never remember the events of November 14, 2020 because she is too little to understand what happened. However, the scars on her face, hands, legs and other parts of her body will serve as a reminder of the suffering she faced on the day she was born.
Her unemployed mother had fallen into labour on the fateful day while her father, Daniel, who is a mechanic’s apprentice, took her to a traditional birth centre in Calabar, the Cross River State capital.
Alicia Keys Life-Saving Program for Mombasa Children
American Artist Alicia Keys
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American artist Alicia Keys philanthropy has benefitted hundreds of children in Mombasa through a program to improve children s health in the county.
The Grammy award-winning musician has been financially supporting a pediatric HIV clinic at the Coast General Hospital for more than a decade.
Through a charitable organisation,
Keep a Child Alive, which she co-founded in 2003, Alicia is a human rights activist and a spokesperson for afflicted women and children around the world.
The Family Care Clinic (FCC) in Mombasa, offers comprehensive, state-of-the-art pediatric HIV services to children and young people. It provides support services to over 1,600 children and families.
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