What people who want to help need to know is to whom they should donate 
money. Believe it or not it is actually quite difficult for aid orgs to get 
funding for infant feeding projects. Organisations that I am aware of that 
are doing IFE work in Haiti are UNICEF, Care, Save the Children and Action 
Against Hunger. They have a huge job!!!!! The amount of donations of formula 
flooding from the US is truly staggering. I've never seen anything like it. 
If the Milk Bank can pass this info onto people contacting them this would 
be helpful. If people can tell orgs that they are donating because of their 
IFE program that's even better.
The reality that many people find difficult to understand is that in 
emergencies it's a matter of making decisions that will result in the fewest 
possible deaths. People think "there are babies without mothers, we must 
send formula"- but when conditions are very bad babies that have not had 
access to breastmilk have died well before any of that formula arrives. So, 
when the formula arrives the breastfed babies are breastfeeding, babies are 
being born. The formula gets distributed and then the babies that could be 
breastfeeding start dying. THE MOST IMPORTANT WAY OF ENSURING THAT MOST 
BABIES SURVIVE IS TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERY BABY BORN AFTER THE EMERGENCY IS 
EXCLUSIVELY BREASTFED.
The amount of formula needed to help babies that have somehow managed to 
survive without breastmilk is tiny in comparison to what arrives.
Karleen Gribble
Australia

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From: "Cathy Webb" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 12:57 PM
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: [LACTNET] Prolacta

> Subject line was Prolacta with questions about the Portland, OR news item.
>
> Sorry for any confusion--which we have been dealing with here since that 
> incorrect media piece which is bouncing all over the place and being 
> picked up by bloggers, etc.
>
> Correct info:  The Northwest Mothers Milk Bank is a HMBANA Developing Milk 
> Bank (we're not yet collecting or processing as we are still in the fund 
> raising stage). We have no connection with Prolacta.
>
> We have facilitated the opening of three donor depots in the Portland area 
> which directly send pre-screened donor milk (with the pre-screening done 
> my a HMBANA milk bank) to the San Jose and Denver HMBANA milk banks. This 
> is to stimulate donor awareness in the NW, as well as being a supply 
> channel for HMBANA banks, as we work to open our facility.
>
> Now to the news item linked in Jodine's post:  Most of that info is 
> incorrect: WHO has not contacted Adventist nor HMBANA (as of this writing) 
> for donor milk. We have three donor depots in Portland area, not one. 
> Adventist is not a collection point for milk donations to Haiti. Adventist 
> Medical Center is not a milk bank. Prospective donor moms are not 
> pre-screened by HMBANA, but they are pre-screened by the individual HMBANA 
> milk banks which are listed on the HMBANA web site. The HMBANA number 
> listed in the article is actually the San Jose, CA milk bank number (and 
> that director said she had 75 phone messages today!).
>
> So please do not distribute this news link or any of the incorrect info.
>
> What you can do is help by distributing the HMBANA's statement below on 
> Haiti which will soon be posted on www.hmbana.org
>
> There are so many moms who want to help other moms and babies in this 
> terrible emergency situation in Haiti.
>  Please help by disseminating the correct information to them.
>      Thanks,
>          June
>
> June Winfield, Board Chairman
> Northwest Mothers Milk Bank
> Portland, OR
>  www.nwmmb.org
> ______________________________________
>
>
> HMBANA Statement: Situation in Haiti
>
> The Human Milk Banking Association of North American (HMBANA) is
> saddened by the disastrous earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12,
> 2010. Our thoughts and prayers reach out to this country that now has
> lost so much.
>
> Many areas have no water, electricity, housing or health care
> facilities. Recognizing the life saving importance of breastfeeding of
> infants and young children in this situation, we speak in support of
> protection and support of Haitian breastfeeding women. Humanitarian
> efforts must continue to support the health of the mothers and their
> ability to breast feed in order to protect that of the young children.
>
> To help survivors of the Haitian earthquake please donate money to the
> following agencies:
>
> * UNICEF (1-800-4UNICEF)
> * Direct Relief International
> * Yele Haiti
> * Partners in Health
> * Red Cross
> * World Food Programme
> * Mercy Corps (1-888-256-1900)
> * Save the Children
> * Lambi Fund
> * Doctors Without Borders
> * The International Rescue Committee
> * Care
>
> The following organizations are accepting SMS donations in the US only:
>
> * SMS text " HAITI " to 90999 to donate $10 to Red Cross relief
> efforts
> * SMS text "YELE" to 501501 to Donate $5 to Yele Haiti 's Earthquake
> Relief efforts
>
> In order to support HMBANA to be prepared to provide donor milk if
> UNICEF, the Red Cross, WHO or other international organization involved
> on the front lines were to contact us please call your nearest HMBANA
> bank(found at www.HMBANA .org) and become a donor so that we will have the
> needed processed donor milk.
>
> Thank you!
>
> ~ The Board of Directors and Staff of HMBANA
> ______________________________________
> Date:    Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:24:54 -0700
> From:    Jodine Chase <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Prolacta
>
> I just found this news item from Portland Oregon
>
> http://www.salem-news.com/articles/january152010/breastmilk.php
>
> "(PORTLAND, Ore.) - The World Health Organization and Adventist Medical
> Center are asking for human breast milk donations to help babies of the
> Haiti quake, and a Portland, Oregon group is the connection point for 
> those
> who can help[1]...."
>
> Please go and read the entire article. The Adventist Medical Centre looks
> like it's an HMBANA milk bank, part of the Northwest Mother's Milk Bank,
> which is listed as developing on HMBANA's page.
>
> -- Jodine Chase
>
>
>
>
>
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