Yesterday a woman in Chad, Mama Jeanne Ahmad Duval, was interviewed  
in my local newspaper. She used to be employed by Chad's government,  
as a social worker (it doesn't seem to be publixshed on Internet - yet).
She says, in translation from Swedish (which probably has been  
translated from French...): "I struggled for the children. I have  
seven children myself. Many poor people in Chad believe that you  
shouldn't give children under six months any food, apart from bereast  
milk. It is a tradition, but lots of children die because of this".
I checked the figures on a Unicef site, http://www.unicef.org/ 
infobycountry/chad_statistics.html Only 2 of children under 6 months  
are breasstfed. The literacy rate among girls and women age 15-24 is  
23%, and among boys and men the same age 56 %.
I would like to refute this extraordinary quote in a letter to the  
editor. However, it feels a bit presumptuous to sit here by my  
computer in my Swedish idyllic welfare an claim that this woan is  
wrong about the conditions in her own country.
Could yoy help med with facts, please?

Marit Olanders
editor, Swedish bf magazine Amningsnytt

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