BPNI: SAY YEST TO BREASTMILK, NO TO FORMULA MILK

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From BPNI <bpni.india,

 

Dear friends,

 

Over the past six months we all have witnessed the most shocking tainted milk

scandal that killed six infants and sickened nearly 300,000 more. These babies,

well below 3 years, were fed milk powder contaminated with melamine, an

industrial chemical used in fertilisers and plastic production. Imagine if the

babies were not fed powder milk and in fact were fed on their mother’s milk.

They could be saved from this unnecessary catastrophe

Add your name to the ONE MILLION CAMPAIGN - NO MORE MILK SCANDALS! SUPPORT WOMEN

TO BREASTFEED to stop the push towards feeding babies with milk formula, as well

as demand support to women to breastfeed. Click here to sign the petition

http://www.onemilli oncampaign. org/en/Details_ Petitions. aspx

 

Growing scientific evidence points out how vital breastfeeding is to infant

survival with health. Women are being forced to stop breastfeeding and give

their babies milk formulas because they lack support to breastfeed, whether at

the time of birth in family or institutions, or when they are at work, and more

importantly due to increasing commercial push to milk formula feeding. Potential

disasters are thus waiting to happen across the world.

 

The problem is HUGE. Around 200 mothers give birth to babies every minute

somewhere in the world. They need our support. Out of about 135 million children

born annually, only 64 million begin breastfeeding within an hour and 71 million

do NOT. About 48 million women are successful in carrying out exclusive

breastfeeding for the first six months, and 87 million are NOT. Click to sign

the petition http://www.onemilli oncampaign. org/en/Details_ Petitions. aspx to

demand support for women to breastfeed.

 

Most people think of breastfeeding as something that happens between the woman

and her child: that this decision is in the personal domain. However, several

factors affect women's ability to breastfeed successfully: traditions, myths,

status in the family and society, work load, confidence in her body and

sexuality, economic needs, labour laws, domestic and workplace violence and

harassment, availability of support services, advertising by commercial baby

food manufacturers, and so on. These factors do not allow millions of women

across the world to breastfeed their babies optimally.

 

How we respond to this crisis will shape the lives of our children – our

future.Today, public concern alone can prevent potential milk scandals –

public action to respond to the needs of women to enable them to give the best

possible food to their babies. We need to Act NOW !

 

Join the ONE MILLION CAMPAIGN- NO MORE MILK SCANDALS! SUPPORT WOMEN TO

BREASTFEED. Click to sign the petition http://www.onemilli oncampaign.

org/en/Details_ Petitions. aspx

 

The petition demanding support to women will be presented to the world leaders,

at the World Health Assembly in May 2009. Your collective voices will put

pressure on the leaders to prevent unnecessary deaths of children, to ensure

that every woman in every part of the world is enabled to breastfeed

successfully.

 

BE A CONNECTOR

Forward this email to all your friends, your networks, and your family, and let

us raise a voice our leaders cannot ignore.

 

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ONE MILLION CAMPAIGN Support Women to Breastfeed is a campaign of the World

Breastfeeding Movement with just one mission - to mobilize public opinion

through one million signatures, demanding support to women to breastfeed.

 

ONE MILLION CAMPAIGN Support Women to Breastfeed brings together people of all

ages from all walks of life to generate the support women need to breastfeed

successfully. Through participating in the Movement's campaigns, petitions to

local, national and international policy makers, discussions groups,

evidence-based information sharing, and actions at every level, you can focus

national and global attention on the several challenges to successful

breastfeeding and help to resolve them. read more

 

The Team

The ONE MILLION CAMPAIGN team assists the members of the World Breastfeeding

Movement family to identify issues that pose a challenge to successful

breastfeeding, and develop national, regional and international campaigns around

them. The team works through a secretariat in New Delhi, India, and

international coordinators for different regions.

 

ONE MILLION CAMPAIGN has been initiated by International Baby Food Action

Network (IBFAN), winner of the '1998 Right Livelihood Award'. IBFAN has more

than 200 public interest groups working around the world to improve infant

feeding practices and save lives of infants and young children. IBFAN works for

the universal and full implementation of 'International Code of Marketing of

Breast milk Substitutes and subsequent relevant World Health Assembly (WHA)

resolutions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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