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I have posted this before but will repeat it. The Relief centers will be
flooded with baby formula. The companies bring in truckloads of formula-powdered
and speciality formulas. After hurricane Floyd and the resulting flood( I was
a shelter manager), we had truckloads of formula delivered. We had people
lined up at the door asking for formula. From working at WIC, I knew what they
were going to do with it-either take it back to the big discount stores and
trade it in for cash to buy beer and cigarettes, or use it to cut drugs. The
people who wre asking for formula were not new mothers, most were older men
saying they needed formula for their girlfriend's baby. So I made a rule: if
you needed formula, you had to bring the bottles to the nurses's station, let
them wash the bottles, measure out the correct amount into the bottle, and
give the mother bottled water to mix it with. The mother HAD to come in with the
baby in order to get the correct education on how to properly clean and mix
the formula. Immediately, we had no demand for formula. We only had about 3
babies in the shelter and they were all older ( 10 months to about 16 months)
infants. We even had a man who said he was a minister come in and ask for a
pickup truck load of formula for his "church " members. WIC immediately issued
emergency vouchers and came to the shelter to help make sure their clients'
needs were met. I gave out one hand pump during Floyd for a mom who
delivered a premature baby who was at the hospital and the mom had been discharged
but did not have electricity to use the electric pump she was loaned.
At Hatteras Island after hurricane Isabel they sent in a transfer truck full
of formula, mostly specialty formulas for an island of 900 people with 2
babies on the island, both of whom were breastfeeding ( one was my grandbaby).
The formula clogged ( no pun intended) up the distribution system and no one
knew what to do with it. I finally made a suggestion which was immediately
accepted.
If anyone would like to know from a disaster worker's experience what groups
do the best job with the donated money and goods, email me privately.
Barb Whitehead
eastern NC
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