Blog for Action on Poverty

The upcoming October Carnival of Breastfeeding is timed to coincide with Blog Action Day on October 15, 2008. On Blog Action Day, thousands of bloggers write posts on the same general topic yet tailor them to the specific subject of each blog. The Blog Action Day 2008 website says:

Blog Action Day is an annual nonprofit event that aims to unite the world’s bloggers, podcasters and videocasters, to post about the same issue on the same day. Our aim is to raise awareness and trigger a global discussion.

As of today nearly 5,000 blogs with 10,000,000 readers have signed up to participate!

The unifying theme this year is Poverty. So for the carnival we are looking for submissions on breastfeeding as it relates to poverty.

Potential subjects include:

- Trends in breastfeeding by economic classes
- Value of breastfeeding in the fight against poverty
- Cost-effectiveness of breastfeeding
- WIC (Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children in the United States) and breastfeeding
- How to promote breastfeeding among impoverished cultures or families

If you would like to submit your own carnival post on Poverty and Breastfeeding for Blog Action Day, email me your submission by October 11, 2008, for consideration for the carnival on October 15, 2008. Be sure to register your site for participation in Blog Action Day as well.

As a reminder, here are the guidelines that will increase the chances a post will be selected for inclusion:

– A well-written, grammatically correct post
– Thoughtful commentary directly on point for the carnival subject
– Overall quality of the rest of your blog and whether the general subject matter is something of interest to our readers (breastfeeding, parenting)

If your post is selected for inclusion, you will be asked on the day of the carnival to edit your post to link back to each of the other participants in the carnival.