[pronut-hiv] [wabapenang] Community Support for Breastfeeding Seedgrant 2006

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[wabapenang] Community Support for Breastfeeding Seedgrant 2006

Date:   July 28th, 2006

Dear Friends of Breastfeeding,

Warm greetings from the WABA Secretariat! We are pleased to inform 
you of WABA's new Seedgrant project, Community Support for 
Breastfeeding. The project aims to establish or strengthen community 
support worldwide for breastfeeding protection, promotion and 
support. It focuses on educating and sensitising communities towards 
the importance of breastfeeding and encouraging them to be more 
supportive of breastfeeding families or even directly involved in 
supporting mothers.

WABA's Mother Support Task Force (MSTF) has run different projects 
that create awareness on mother support through diverse activities 
such as Mother Support Newsletter and the GIFS(Global Initiative for 
Father Support) seedgrant project, which focuses on father/men 
support.

The Community Support for Breastfeeding Seedgrant project should 
target and enhance existing support measures, groups or activities, 
or initiate new ones.  This project seeks a broad concept of mother 
support such that we support diverse types of community-based 
support initiatives that can help to bring about an enabling 
environment for mothers to initiate and sustain exclusive 
breastfeeding and practice extended breastfeeding after 6 months, 
with adequate complementary feeding. You may want to refer to the 
GIMS(Global Initiative for Mother Support) Statement on the WABA 
website: http://www.waba.org.my/gims/statement.htm

To apply, you need to write to us at the email address below to 
request a copy of: 
An Application Form, that includes a Questionnaire about your group 
and your plans 
The Community Support for Breastfeeding Seedgrant Guidelines 
Further information on the Community Support Seedgrant will soon be 
available on the waba website.
The completed application form must reach WABA latest, by the 25th 
August 2006.
Please share the news of this new Seedgrant Programme with your 
networks. We look forward to hearing from you.

With warm regards,

Pushpa Panadam & Julianna Lim 
Community Support for Breastfeeding
WABA P.O.Box 1200, 108500 Penang, Malaysia
Tel:604-6584816 Fax: 604-6572655
Email: waba@streamyx.com