I hope too that La Leche League will be around fifty years from now.   
However, a slight correction, there was an International La Leche 
League conference in Toronto in 1977 and another in Mexico City in, I 
think, 2001.   Eileen Shea, BSc, IBCLC
On 2-Dec-06, at 12:24 PM, Ellen wrote:

> Hi Micky and all,
> regarding your message of the LLLI Conference:
> Wouldn't you think that after 50 years, LLLI would be stronger than 
> ever?=
>
> We are hoping that LLLI will be around for the next 50 years, but as 
> La Leche League is INTERNATIONAL,  the decision not to host another 
> "International" conference was because the nature of the conference 
> was far from International. Most of the participants were and are from 
> the USA, the conference has always been held on US soil. Therefore the 
> LLLI Board of Directors had to make the difficult decision of removing 
> this activity off the LLLI Budget. The conference has not made money 
> over the past few years, therefore it would have been detrimental to 
> the La Leche League International financial situation if continued. 
> This is one step taken to ensure that LLLI will be stronger than 
> ever!!
>
> It is the hope of the LLLI Board and the entire community , that there 
> will still be National Conferences and International Conferences 
> offered by other entities, such as Divisions or Affiliates around the 
> world including within the United States.
>
> Hope this helps.
> Ellen Shein, LLL, IBCLC and
> Member of  the LLLI Board of Directors.
>
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