Glastonbury Festival supports the Million Mums campaign

raising awareness about maternal and newborn health

By Scott Williams | Published: Fri 12th Jun 2009

Glastonbury Festival 2009

Wednesday 24th to Sunday 28th June 2009
Worthy Farm, Pilton, Shepton Mallet, Somerset, BA4 4AZ, England MAP
£175 - SOLD OUT

Daily capacity: 150,000

Million Mums will be a key part of Glastonbury Festival's range of 'good causes' this year, with a big presence in both The Park and The Backstage areas, as well as eye catching 'tattoo' messaging all over site.

Million Mums (www.millionmums.org) is a new campaign raising awareness about maternal and newborn health all over the world. The Million Mums campaign aims to join together a million people (or more), and raise a million pounds (at least), to provide a united voice to speak out against preventable maternal mortality. Million Mums will be located in a tent in The Park (next to the Rabbit Hole).

Festival organiser Emily Eavis said, "I've been working closely with the White Ribbon Alliance over the last year, and the Million Mums campaign is in direct support of the brilliant work they are doing. The Festival will be a great opportunity to really raise awareness of the work that urgently needs to be done."

At Glastonbury Festival this year the Million Mums team have decided to bring Festival goers the chance to give the ultimate tribute in the form of an 'I love my mum' style tattoo, as well as some much needed TLC with an on site masseuse, lots of music, and flapjacks and tea for the lucky ones.

Festival goers will also be able to add their name to the Million Mums campaign at the information stalls all over the site and send postcards home to their mums. This will help to provide the White Ribbon Alliance with a united voice to assist their advocacy work around the world and speak out against these needless deaths.

Did you know?

Every minute of every day, somewhere in the world, a woman dies due to pregnancy and birth related complications.
In Africa and Asia, pregnancy and childbirth are the number one causes of death amongst women of childbearing age, killing more than half a million women each year and leaving an estimated 2 million children motherless.
Over 80% of these deaths are preventable - women are dying needlessly, not for lack of a cure, but because they can't get healthcare.

The White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood is an international coalition of individuals and organizations working in over 100 countries to increase public awareness and build political support to make pregnancy and childbirth safe for all women and newborns around the world. For more information, click here.

The line-up of music acts for this year has been confirmed and includes Neil Young as Friday headliner, Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band as Saturday night headliner, and Blur as Sunday headliner, alongside thousands of other acts including The Specials, Lily Allen, Fleet Foxes, Kasabian, Crosby Stills and Nash, Dizzee Rascal, Spinal Tap, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Madness, Bloc Party, The Ting Tings, Lady GaGa, White Lies, Franz Ferdinand, Pendulum, Maximo Park, Paolo Nutini, Peter Doherty, The Prodigy, Glasvegas, Bon Iver, Bat For Lashes, Q-Tip, and many more.

To see the most detailed line-up details for Glastonbury Festival anywhere on the web, click here >>.

This year's Glastonbury Festival runs throughout the five full days from Wednesday 24th until Sunday 28th June 2009 at Worthy Farm, Somerset.

Tickets for the Festival have sold out, a full weekend ticket was priced at £175.

For detailed information on all aspects of the festival, click here.

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