A few weeks ago I wrote about my Golden Twitter Moment, when I was honoured to receive a ’tweet’ from the magnificent Stephen Fry. When I read back over that post I still get goosebumps at the fact that, from amongst all those hundreds of thousands of followers, he happened to notice me! However, we @mumstheboss (aka Sam & Helen) now find ourselves in an even more honoured position, all thanks to Twitter. We have been invited, by @sarahbrown10 to Downing Street!
On 4th December we have been invited to the Downing Tweet Christmas Party, at a reception in support of the Million Mums Campaign, the patron of whom is the Prime Minister’s wife Sarah Brown. This is a campaign which we have personally supported and publicly promoted on Twitter by wearing a White Ribbon Alliance ‘twibbon’ on our avator.
The Million Mums Campaign is run by The White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood. Every minute of every day, a woman dies of pregnancy related complications, totaling more than one half million women each year. The White Ribbon Alliance is an international coalition bound together by a common goal: to ensure that pregnancy and childbirth are safe for all women and newborns in every country around the world.
The aim of the Million Mums campaign is simple: Sign up a million people to speak out against the needless deaths of women in pregnancy and childbirth around the world. So if you are lucky enough to be a mum who had a happy and healthy pregnancy, then maybe you would like to join the campaign too and donate £1 or more to help prevent children all over the world being born without a mum to take care of them.
I don’t know why we have been chosen to attend such an amazing event, but I do know it would never happened without Twitter. And if, in some small way, we can help spread the message and encourage more people to join the campaign, then that will make all our tweets about baking cakes and drinking wine (as well as running great events for business mums!) even more worthwhile!
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