We salute you, noble and illustrious mothers

Tomorrow, Ghanaians join the world to celebrate Mothers Day, a special day set aside to appreciate and honour the world’s mothers for the role they play in shaping society.

Since the beginning of the week, there has been a lot of buzz about the day. Many Ghanaians have eulogised their mothers on numerous radio programmes aired to herald the day, with some businesses cashing in on the importance society places on the day for commercial gain.

What is significant, however, is that mothers are recognised as the foundation of the family and, by extension, society. 

Aside from replenishing the human resource through their reproductive roles, the children they nurture are the ones who grow up to be the heroes and heroines and even take up leadership roles in governance.

Mothers perform their nurturing roles with determination, courage and resilience, even in the face of life’s daunting challenges.

Many women have had to single-handedly raise children, juggle their careers with motherhood and willingly face the challenges of playing their motherly roles of caring, nurturing and providing for their families.

In spite of this, the Daily Graphic is of the view that the valuable contributions of mothers to society have not been fully reciprocated. Many die in childbirth while performing their reproductive roles of replenishing the human resource of the country.

The sad fact is that many of these deaths are needless because they could be prevented if, as a nation, we will devote more resources and attention to issues concerning maternal health. After all, it is only women who die out of pregnancy-related causes.

Despite the failure of society to ensure their safety during childbirth, women still take the risk to produce children, so that they can become mothers, and go to great lengths to ensure that the children they bear become successful, hopeful that they will reap and enjoy the fruits of their efforts as mothers.

In doing this, some suffer gender-based violence but they continue to endure these abusive unions just to obey their basic instincts of motherhood. 

We hope that the celebration of this year’s Mothers Day will not just be a fanfare but one of reflection by leadership, communities and society in general on how to support our mothers to perform their God-given role in society and feel gratified that they are really appreciated for the love that they give unconditionally.

Our mothers and, indeed, all women have every reason to be excited. 

We salute all women on this auspicious day.