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Jeanette Panchula <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 20 May 2003 05:39:38 -0700
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I see that many of you have been successful in reaching organizations and
have them change their policies.  The ILCA External Affairs Board Member,
Margot Mann, recieved this request from Helen Armstrong - whom many of you
know for tireless efforts to help mothers in emergency situations
world-wide.  Margot agreed I could share it with you:


Dear Margot,

  You had an enormous list of recipients for your email about removal of
formula from the aid packages to Iraq, after UNICEF advocacy.

   A great chorus of sustained advocacy is needed directly to the many
charitable organizations that are planning to deliver some kind of aid.
Certain of them are even using the "starving babies" image as a strategy
for drumming up funds.  But even those that avoid this pitfall may not yet
be  making the necessary plans to provide support to breastfeeding, and to
use the 71 Iraqi Board-Certified Lactation Consultants in this undertaking.

  It would be very helpful indeed if you could forward this message to
everyone who got your earlier one, informing them that they will serve the
cause of breastfeeding very well if they alert every charity that contacts
them to the existence of common Operational Guidance on Infant Feeding in
Emergencies.

  Many major relief organizations have already signed onto this, but their
branches may need to be reminded -- and most of the smaller relief
organizations have not yet endorsed it.  There is also a training module
for relief workers that gives them the basic rationale for the Operational
  Guidance.  Your correspondents might choose to download the free material
on the Emergency Nutrition Network site, or forward it directly from that
site to any charity that seems to be in danger of reverting to older, less
helpful patterns of response to crises.


  For the Operational Guidance, www.ennonline.net/ife/ifeops

  To sign up an organization to endorse it, www.ennonline.net/ife/ifesignup

  The training module, www.ennonline.net/ife/module1


  For information about Module 2, which is in draft form and intended to
give basic breastfeeding support skills to untrained workers,
correspondents whocould facilitate its field testing can enquire for a copy
from [log in to unmask]


  Thank you for arranging for your correspondents to receive this info to
share with all charities that ask for their contribution. Providing the
information is a very valuable donation, it would seem to me.


  With warm regards,

  Helen   Armstrong
  ([log in to unmask])





Jeanette Panchula, BSW, RN, PHN, IBCLC
ILCA US Delegate:

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