I am wishing you and all the WALC members a successful conference.

Pardon me for not being in contact, I have been away working with
parents of deaf children and training them in community based
rehabilitation. However, we have conducted two major activities with
the mother support groups this year.

1. sharing our 2009 experiences on breastfeeding and infant and young
child feeding in general.
2. Gaining more knowledge of complementary feeding and learning
cooking multimix using locally available foods.
3. Now that I have got back, I am getting to finalise writing my
presentation to the ILCA conference in July.
4.I have secured some contribution to the conference registration $500
from ERGOBABY carrier company. Currently I am working hard to saving
for my ticket.

Please find here with attached report.

Wishing you all the best,
Josephine

On behalf of the Conference Program Committee of the International Lactation Consultant Association, I am pleased to inform you that your proposal, Reaching vulnerable babies, girls and women in Africa: An experience of Uganda, was accepted as part of a workshop session for the 2010 Conference and Annual Meeting, ILCA at 25: A Lactation Celebration!, July 21-25 at the JW Marriott Hill Country Resort, San Antonio, Texas, USA.

I have been selected as a National Trainer in Infant and Young
Child Feeding by IBFAN Uganda - recommended to the Ministry of Health of
Uganda and I will be attending a Trainers of Trainers programme the
second week of December.  There wil be National trainings for Health
workers next year and I will be part of the team to conduct these
trainings. I would like to mention that its because of the support you
give me that these people are able to recognise my active
participation and recommend me. Thanks a million times.

Josephine has sent a comprehensive report about all the things she is doing to help more mothers breastfeed their babies in her region of Uganda.  She has included many pictures in the report – she is doing amazing work with the contributions from WALC!  Read her report and post a comment – I’m sure she’d be happy to hear from any of us.

Luck knocked on my door when WALC started sponsoring my membership to International Lactation Consultant Association (ILCA).  My name is Josephine, I come from Uganda- the Pearl of Africa located in Eastern Africa…(more)

As soon as the website is up and running well, our partner Josephine in Uganda will be able to update us about her activities in this space.  She has been very busy with many activities to protect, promote and support breastfeeding in her area and is appreciative of the funding we are able to provide.  I also know that she has submitted an abstract for the 2010 ILCA Conference.  More to come!