Hi Morgan,
I think that many aid orgs have difficulty getting their PR people to 
understand about bottles and formula and also that the best response when a 
mistake is discovered is to fess up and say sorry. It's unacceptable but 
doesn't necessarily mean that what happens on the ground is bad. Mistakes 
like these are a reflection of the culture from which the workers come. We 
just need to keep at them so that they become part of changing the culture.
Karleen Gribble
Australia



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From: "Morgan Gallagher" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 6:47 AM
Subject: Re: Oxfam GB :)) :-(


> Oxfam GB also stated recently a baby bottle is "an object that
> represents motherhood" and refused to either accept that a baby bottle
> was an unacceptable image in a video they helped make, promoting the end
> to world hunger and poverty, or to refute their response-to-complaints
> statement that it is "an object that represents motherhood".
>
> If you are sending money to Oxfam GB, you need to consider their
> attitude to baby bottles, and their disregard of baby bottle deaths.
> Many of the other Oxfam groups, similarly echoed the sentiment that
> having a baby bottle to represent motherhood in such a video, was Not A
> Big Deal.  It's in light of this, that Oxfam USA are offering baby
> bottles in their unwrapped presents.
>
> http://one-of-those-women.blogspot.com/2008/09/oxfam-not-in-my-name.html
>
> http://one-of-those-women.blogspot.com/2008/09/shame.html
>
> http://one-of-those-women.blogspot.com/2008/10/if-you-are-cancelling-your-oxfam-sub.html
>
> Oxfam GB also tried to use Baby Milk Action's name, as a 'defence' of
> their actions - without mentioning it to Baby Milk Action.
>
> Morgan Gallagher
>
> Rachel O'Leary wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Oxfam GB does not have any artificial feeding products on its
>> Unwrapped gift list. It also sometimes funds the work of Baby Milk
>> Action, the British IBFAN group :)))
>>
>
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