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Our Story
© A. Fielding
Mothers at Risk is the initiative of Diana Perez-Buck, a Spanish-American mother of two young children and former consultant for the United Nations, based in Brussels. Shortly after delivering her second baby, and while working on a leadership program with Afghan women, Diana heard these women’s first-hand accounts of the suffering and loss women in their country endure during maternity. She learned that this silent tragedy was not unique to Afghanistan, and that one woman dies every minute somewhere in the world from complications of pregnancy and childbirth, because they lack basic care. Having volunteered for years in a shelter for disadvantaged mothers in Brussels, Diana had also met many women who face motherhood alone, in extreme conditions of social, economic and emotional vulnerability.
She and a group of 14 other like-minded women established Mothers at Risk to help change the odds for some of these women, their children and their families. Mothers at Risk now counts on a growing and vibrant network of people with a variety of skills, talents and resources and a commitment to the wellbeing of mothers. Our members and advisers come from Argentina, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Canada, Egypt, the Czech Republic, Germany, Lebanon, Turkey, Spain, Peru, Portugal, Switzerland and the United States.
Please join us.
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