Hi, all

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is looking to put money in child
nutrition--and specifies that any projects it funds can't interfere with
breastfeeding! The following is a news blurb from the Foundation Center:


GAIN Receives $38 Million From Gates Foundation to Fight Malnutrition

The Geneva-based Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition has announced a $38
million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to increase
private-sector engagement in the fight against malnutrition in young
children.

The grant will be used to provide loans, grants, and technical advice to
private companies and public-private partnerships working to develop and
distribute low-cost, easy-to-use, nutritious food products for infants and
children between six months and twenty-four months of age. Companies that
receive support from GAIN will be required to ensure that all foods they
produce and market meet international standards, complement and do not
compete with breast-feeding practices, and have demonstrable positive
impacts on the health of children. The new initiative will complement GAIN's
ongoing work to increase access to nutritious foods in developing countries,
where the organization already reaches 160 million people with staple foods
fortified with essential nutrients.

To read the whole story, click here:

http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/news/story.jhtml?id=201100028 

I guess that's putting your money where your mouth is! :-D

Melissa Vickers, IBCLC

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