What I love most about Mother's Day is that I am acknowledged and honored for being a mother.

My children are still young, but I try to talk to them about giving back and how important it is, just to look at the world, be invested in things, to be passionate about things, to have a dream.

The desert loves me. I love the desert. It's nice to be in the heat in Africa. I love it.

It's always a tricky thing, trying to make aid sustainable.

The best lesson that I've learned from my mother is that she just never accepted no for an answer and I think that's something that has stayed with me.

Investing in women's lives is an investment in sustainable development, in human rights, in future generations - and consequently in our own long-term national interests.

I'm a mom. I'm from Ethiopia. I gave birth in the U.S. and had all the proper care available to me. If I had given birth in Ethiopia - I don't know if I might have even survived it.