This weekend, a heartfelt shoutout to moms everywhere. And if you can’t be with yours, please send her a card and join us for some Great Big Stories filled with motherly love.
Mercy Obiero and her daughter, Natasha Okoth, are some of the strongest women in Kenya. Mercy, a national weightlifting legend, embraced the sport at a time when few women were doing so. Now, this mom is helping train her daughter to become the strongest woman in the country.
Anna Jarvis LOVED her mom. She loved her mother so much that when her mother died, she devoted herself to campaigning for a national holiday to celebrate mothers. So why did Anna become so angry when President Woodrow Wilson made the holiday official in 1914?
Jannet Castanon and her mother Rosario Vargas Flores live only a few miles apart, but have been separated by the U.S.-Mexico Border for nine years. Mother and daughter finally had the opportunity to embrace for a few precious moments when the U.S. Border Patrol opened the border’s steel fence for the third time in its history.
