Aimed at MDG #5 - Maternal health: - http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/maternal.shtml
An SMS or USSD based application that aims at providing bits of information to expectant mothers and mid-wives in rural areas who cannot get access to pre-natal care. It could also be used to provide assistance to mid-wives during delivery in case of complications.
The votes are in and TODAY
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The votes are in and TODAY viewers have decided: Melissa McMillin and Jeremy Gebhardt will wed next month on Rockefeller Plaza — and on national television — as excited fans and well-wishers look on.
“I am so excited right now!” Jeremy said live via satellite from Bagram, Afghanistan, as the news was announced on TODAY Wednesday.
The young Missouri couple — separated for years because of Gebhardt’s tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan — earned the most votes on Facebook to become the recipients of TODAY’s annual wedding giveaway and gala on the Plaza.
Every detail about the Sept. 30 wedding will be decided by TODAY viewers. In the weeks leading up to Melissa and Jeremy’s big day, viewers can continue bride dresses voting and choose the rings, wedding dress, tux, reception venue, bridesmaids’ attire, cake and honeymoon destination.
The process began Wednesday as Avril Graham, executive fashion and beauty editor for Harper’s Bazaar, showed Melissa the wedding ring choices in Studio 1A. “They’re all so beautiful,” Melissa exclaimed.
“I think they’re all gorgeous,” Jeremy agreed from Afghanistan. “Any of these would be more than I could ask for.”
Melissa and Jeremy are thrilled to have been chosen for TODAY’s Modern Love Wedding. When submitting videos along with their application, they said such a wedding would be a dream come true for them after living apart for so long Bargain Wedding Dresses under such serious circumstances. When Jeremy isn’t deployed in the Middle East as a senior airman in the U.S. Air Force, he’s stationed in Anchorage, Alaska.