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Article: International breast milk project: donate excess breastmilk to the world's most vulnerable children.(Postpartum and Breastfeeding)(i Themba Lethu)
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- Special Delivery
- Article date:
- June 22, 2007
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Like many breastfeeding mothers, in July 2006, Jill Youse found herself with a large surplus of breastmilk. Loath to dispose of her excess supply, and believing, as many of us do, that her milk was "liquid gold", she filled her freezer with the excess supply. As her freezer neared capacity, Youse did something that the rest of us never had. She researched and found not only a vast need for her breastmilk, but also a way to get her surplus and the need together.
She found that the orphanage, i Themba Lethu, in Durban South Africa had established a breastmilk bank in 2001. Babies infected with HIV, orphaned and abandoned because their mothers had died of AIDS, are ...