Alice,

I hear you!  How about sending those students to undergo a 3-week 
internship to Kibera? - nothing like first hand observation to 
explode those comfortably privileged prejudices?? This is when you 
realize that promotion of infant feeding choice is immoral.

Pamela (who grew up in Kenya...)

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Date:    Sun, 6 Oct 2013 21:46:01 +0200
From:    Alice Farrow <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Fact of the day

Pat, I have just done a health science module with the Open 
University UK, for my IBCLC exam prerquisites - in particular we 
studied water and health and the illnesses caused by lack of access 
to clean water. We studied Kibera, the Kenyan slum (circa 170,000 
people) where the health clinics don't even have running water - I 
saw video footage of just buckets on the floor for hand washing. 
Unfortunately, despite studied infant malnutrition and diahoerreal 
diseases, breastfeeding was just not mentioned. I brought this up on 
our student forum and was basically 'slammed' by a few other 
students  -'how do you expect malnourished mothers to feed infants 
etc.'. These are the health care workers of the future. We need to 
impact university texts and curriculums....

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