Real Impact.
In this beautiful video see what we did with the money we raised at Cork City Marathon last Year. Watch the video and travel with us as we prepare for this years Marathon on Sunday the 31st of May.
More about our work in the Congo
A Fortuitous meeting at the food systems summit in Ethiopia in July 2026. Her invitation has led to a beautiful project being implemented in the Democratic Republic of the Congo just 7 months later.
Watch that beautiful journey here and be part of our journey together.
7 minutes of Possibility
Mothers First in 2
7 minutes of Possibility is a beautiful journey into the world that we have created by your acts of generosity.
Come journey with us and help us become what we have yet to be.
Where and how our work has evolved in 21 years.
From Varanasi Childrens Hospital to Mothers First
From responding to emergencies to prevention . Empowering mothers is building stronger and more resilient families.
In this Interview in 2012 Founder of Mothers First retells the extraordinary and heart warming story of how Mothers First was founded and its ability to adapt and change.
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Mothers First is provided targted food interventions to over 210 pregant and malnoursed mothers each month.
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Fullfilling a long held desire to work in Africa. Mothers First began working in a comunity of 600 households in Somiland. The project is about listening to the comunity needs and responding. We have built a bithing centre, developed a miro loans project and water and sanitiotion projects.. Please visit our web page here.
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In February 2026, Mothers First successfully replicated our approach in India to target clinically malnoursed Mothers with local food
Our work in Pictures
India
In 2015 Mothers First transitioned from a program treating severe malnutrition in children
to focus on mothers who were malnourished and pregnant.
Targeting the mothers with highly nutritious food
babies were born better nourished.
We work with care and compassion.
severe malnutrition in children no longer exists in these villages.
Bringing Generational hope.
Our Work in Pictures the Congo
Founders of Mothers First and Rainbow Women Development met at the Food System Summit in Ethiopia in July 2025
February 2026, just 7 months later we begin our new program in the Congo
First Assessment Day
Our targeted approach means that only the most vulnerable mothers receive our intervention.
Super Cereal
The Mothers we work for.
And the Joy
Our Work in Pictures
Somaliland
in 2023 an opportunity presented itself to extend our work beyond India
we held a listening tent for a community of over 500 households who had recently been relocated to a permanent settlement in Somaliland in East Africa.
Listening
The new village
Each Family was given 9 meters by 10 meters
To built a future
All work in the village is carried out by the community themselves.
construction of toilets and shelter repair for the most vulnerable
The traditional midwives asked for a birthing center
The Birthing Centre we Build
Miro Loan Project
Community Discussions
Dry Land Agriculture Project
Our Work in Pictures
Enjoy the Joy
Our work is all about increasing Birth Weight.
We do this by targeting Mothers who malnoursed them selves
We do this by measuring the mothers weight and height
and when they fit the International creteria for malnutrion we provide a food and medicience basket every month.
We contuine the intervention for the first 3 months after dillivery
Every Month approximately 25 babies are born into the project have recied almost 8 months of support
We monitor not just birth weight but the babies height and weight are tracked
Our work is all about increasing Birth Weight.
We do this by targeting Mothers who malnoursed them selves
We do this by measuring the mothers weight and height
and when they fit the International creteria for malnutrion we provide a food and medicience basket every month.
We contuine the intervention for the first 3 months after dillivery
Every Month approximately 25 babies are born into the project have recied almost 8 months of support
We monitor not just birth weight but the babies height and weight are tracked
Our work in Somilland East Africa
As part of the Lis tening tents project
Part of the small business loans for 7 women lead household
Within a hour of kitting out the Birthing centre this happened. Please find this short film of that day