If your New Year’s Resolution involved exercise, promoting breastfeeding or being more charitable (or maybe even all three) then I have I got an idea for you! I learned from Tanya at the Motherwear Breastfeeding Blog that the International Breast Milk Project (IBMP) is holding a fundraiser on February 10, 2007. You might remember that the IBMP sends donated breast milk to babies orphaned by HIV/AIDS in South Africa.
A portion of the funds raised from a charity run/walk–a 2.6-mile mini-marathon–in conjunction with Run for Africa will benefit the IBMP (100% of the proceeds benefit water and nutrition programs in …read more

In an extraordinary program, babies whose mothers died of AIDS receive breast milk donated by South African women to the IThemba Lethu orphanage in Durban, South Africa. ABC News reported on October 4:
When the children first come to the orphanage, they are so sick and malnourished they can barely cry…. Once they are fed, they thrive on the breast milk, and within a few weeks, they are full of life. They gain weight almost immediately and don’t get sick as often when they’re drinking the breast milk.
Jill Youse, a mother in Columbia, Missouri, read about the orphanage on the Web while she was nursing her 10-month-old daughter. She …read more