The international conference of women of the Mother Centers in Argentina, where we could exchange experiences and knowledge of the long-standing work at the Mother Centers across the ocean – has been a two-year old dream, which came true this year, from the 13th to the 16th October 2016.
Low Budget, a lot of personal engagement, flexibility and most of all the strong will of the participants have made this dream come true. Besides the women of the Mine-Management board Andrea Laux, Ingrid Bregenzer (Germany) and Emese Domösi (Hungary), Waltraud Erharter and Petra Steinegger from the network of Mother Centers of South Tyrol were also present, at their own expense, in Buenos Aires. They came to help Renate Stein, the initiator of the Mother Center Suarez and Manager of Mine with the organization of the first South American Conference. Besides the women of the first Argentinian Mother Center in Suarez in the Province of Buenos Aires, Luciana Oliveira Mendoza, Juliana Mozer and Manuela Stein da Silva Barbosa of the first Mine- Mother Center initiatives from Goiânia and São Paulo in Brazil also attended the conference.

Although we had to manage ourselves without an interpreter during the first day of the conference, due to the shortage of budget funds, we quickly noted that our hearts beat together for these reasons: ‟To create better living conditions for our children and families, to care for the normalization and peace in our neighborhoods, to assume responsibilities, to contribute to the development of sensible areas, to impart education, health provisions and sustainability in the first 1000 days of our children, and to support each other in this task.“