Why do we celebrate Mother’s Day?

American Ann Reevers Jarvis was active in grassroots development work and devised a special day for ‘memorial mother’s day for mothers living and dead’. It was her daughter, Anna Jarvis (1864-1948), who eventually implemented this plan. She chose the second Sunday in May as the date for this new ‘Mother’s Day’. Not without reason, this was the first Sunday after her own mother’s death on 9 May 1905.