Projects
for 2004
Breastfeeding Week, Malta,
2004
World Breastfeeding Week is celebrated during
the first week of August in many countries. Some countries in Europe
celebrate it in October. This year we are celebrating the theme
Exclusive Breastfeeding: Safe, Sound, Sustainable.
The following is the Programme the ABC
planned for celebrating World Breastfeeding Week 2004.
Association of Breastfeeding Counsellors (ABC)
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Programme: Breastfeeding Week Malta , 2004
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1st August Sunday |
Article in newspaper |
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2nd August Monday |
Press Conference |
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3rd August Tuesday |
Launch ABC WEBSITE |
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4th August Wednesday |
Meeting in Valletta to give out GOLD BOWS* |
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5th August Thursday |
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6th August Friday |
Visit to Maternity Ward Gozo General Hospital |
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9th August Monday |
An evening at the poolside |
*Learn more about the Gold Bow
concept
– click on
gold
standard.pdf
Collaboration between the ABC,
the Health Promotion and the Midwifery Management at
Karin Grech Hospital
For the first time in the history of
breastfeeding in Malta these three stakeholders have found common
ground to start a method of collaboration in the way they work for
breastfeeding. The Press Conference held on the 2nd August
was organised by the three organisations as a joint venture.
This first collaboration was intended to
precisely work together to celebrate Breastfeeding Week Malta, 2004.
The role of each organisation is autonomous from the other two yet
together they form a big part of the whole.
The synergy emerging from
this venture culminated in the projection of the image that the three
together would like to improve and that together they can find new
ways to promote, to protect and to support breastfeeding.
Website for the Association
of Breastfeeding Counsellors
We are proud that this moment has finally
arrived!
www.breastfeedingmalta.org
is the address of our brand new website.
The website is meant to document information
about the ABC as well as to serve as a point of reference for factual
information about breastfeeding and the issues related to it.
Furnishing new HQ
Fr. Louis Camilleri,
Director of the Cana Movement has kindly offered the use of the ground
floor room at Dar ta Kana, The Mall, Floriana, for the ABC to use as
its Headquarters.
Members are hunting for
suitable office furniture and equipment to furbish the room.
Anyone who is interested
in supplying the ABC with the necessary items is welcome to send in
their proposal addressed to The Secretary, ABC. Dar ta Kana, The Mall,
Floriana, before 15th September, 2004.
Fundraising activities
Four activities are
being planned for 2004 with the final aim of acquiring some revenue
for the everyday running of the organisation.
