Physical Health Uganda Project #45267

Centre of excellence for newborn care in Uganda

by Born on the Edge

Project Report | Jun 6, 2023
World Day of Human Milk Donation

By Adam Hewitt-Smith | Trustee, Born on the Edge

The 19th of May was World Day of Human Milk Donation and the theme was "A small gesture can feed a big dream" - our big dream on this special day was for a world where #EveryNewborn has access to human #breastmilk.

In our setting, where there are limited alternatives to #breastmilk, we try our hardest to support every mother to establish successful #breastfeeding and give their newborn babies the best start in life. We are training an expert mama as a lactational specialist to teach and encourage regular hand expression of expressed milk for our small and sick babies who can’t breastfeed directly.

We are now working hard to provide equitable access to #DonorHumanMilk where a #MothersOwnMilk is not enough or is not available. We currently use fresh, screened #donorhumanmilk for the #preemies whose mothers really don’t have enough of #mumsownmilk. We are only weeks away from opening our #HumanMilkBank to support safe pasteurisation and storage of #breastmilk

We would be so grateful for any donation you can give towards our Human Milk Bank programme

With YOUR small gesture we can live our dream and together we can make sure that #EveryNewborn has access to human #breastmilk

Every little helps, just £5 every month would go so far. We really would be so grateful for any donation you can give towards this programme.

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