Drumbeat 13 December 2007Someone forwarded me the below from the Oxfam retail newsletter. If you are an Oxfam donor you might like to contact them and congratulate them on the program supporting exclusive breastfeeding and ask them to include an article with more detail in their supporters newsletter and (while they are at it) why not a "breastfeeding support" product in their Oxfam unwrapped catalogue.
When aid agencies do sometging well it's really important to give them a pat onthe beack about it. If they think that breastfeeding is important to donors they will make sure that they include breastfeeding support in their programs.
Karleen Gribble
Australia




        Loveable Batsiranai Dolls - for every one you buy, a twin doll is given to an HIV/AIDS affected family in Zimbabwe.


      A wider reach for Batsiranai dolls 
      Such has been the success of the Batsiranai Twin Dolls program that it has been extended to rural communities in Zimbabwe through an AIDS education program run through the country's Exclusive Breast Feeding (EBF) campaign. Pictured here are children with dolls at the EBF launch.
      A total of 4,000 dolls have already gone to orphans and disabled children in HIV/AIDS affected families in Zimbabwe.

      The deputy director of the Exclusive Breast Feeding campaign, Alison Jenkins, has thanked Oxfam Shop for the donation of 8,000 dolls for distribution in association with the campaign.
      Ms Jenkins said that the exclusive breast-feeding program entails giving only breast milk to babies from birth to six months. She said this was an extremely important health message for all mothers in Zimbabwe, as well as in the rest of the world.
      "Giving breast milk only during this time reduces illness in all babies and reduces HIV transmission compared to mixed breast feeding for HIV positive mothers," she said.
      Each of the dolls given as part of the campaign will have an EBF ribbon sewn on its front.



       
     

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