Because no matter where in the world you are, we all cycle through the same tasks in a day. Meals, dishes, school, work, worrying over bills, celebrating first steps and tiny humans growing into their skin and their future.

What if while we rocked our babies or waited up for our teenagers, while we commuted to work, while we peeled the potatoes we were able to teach our kids what it looks like to love on the world next door?

What if 1 blog community could build 1 South African community a safe place for child care, economic empowerment, a gathering place for church and classrooms for HIV/Aids training?

Because there’s a whole community of women who are raising more kids than just their own and still have all the same hopes, dreams and fears that we do.

And there’s a whole community of kids who would tell you that there is nothing ordinary about being a mom. Especially when you don’t have one.

They live just north of Pretoria, South Africa, in an area called Maubane. About 150 adults and 250 orphans and vulnerable children meet on this open plot of land every Sunday for church, for meals, for play.

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And during the week many of those kids are unsupervised before and after school.

Many of those adults are desperate for new work opportunities.

So whether you are a mother, know a mother, or have a mother won’t you come and stand with the mothers of South Africa this Mother’s Day?

Phase 1: Community Vegetable Garden

Phase 2: Community Kitchen and Welcome Center

Phase 3: Community Outreach Hall

Phase 4: 12 Classrooms

Phase 5: Playground

Help One Now and local South African organizations, Take Action and the James 127 Trust partnered with you to build a community water point last fall.