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IBMP Projects
International Breast Milk Project has one main purpose: to improve access to health care and nutrition for infants in impoverished nations. In addition to shipping milk, we have identified an area in Tanzania in desperate need of a health care facility and physician. Your milk and monetary donations will help fund this project.
US Milk to Africa
Our next shipment of around 55,000 ounces of donor breast milk from the US is scheduled to ship from Monrovia, CA to Durban, South Africa in early October. According to the Global Breast Milk Initiative:
- Worldwide in 2006, approximately four million infants died before reaching the age of four weeks.
- According to UNICEF, babies who are breastfed have a 6 times greater chance of survival during the first 2 months of life.
- Research has shown that substitution of animal’s milk, formula or water compromises the infant’s digestive and immune system.
- Delaying the breastfeeding process, by even one day, doubles the chances of the infant dying before one month.(www.gbmi.us)
 View
pictures of the 2007 milk shipment to Africa.
Milk Shipment Report
Lewa Project
IBMP has funded rainwater harvesting tanks and a water purification
system for the Lewa Children's Home near Eldoret, Kenya. Lewa serves 87
children ranging from infants to teenagers. The clean water systems not
only ensure safe, sustainable water for the children, but the water
also nourishes the vegetable and dairy farm surrounding the children’s
home, so that children can eat healthy, farm-fresh food straight from
the field. More information about the Lewa Children's Home and Baraka
Farm can be found at www.lewachildrenshome.info.
IBMP visited the children's home in March and met with executive
director Phyllis Keino, who has devoted the past 30 years to aiding orphans
in Kenya. She identified clean water and health care as her top
priorities for the children and for the surrounding community.
 View our
photo album of the Lewa Children's Home.
As a result, IBMP is helping to construct a community health clinic in
this desperately underserved area of rural Kenya. In addition to child
and infant care, the clinic will also serve the health care needs of
thousands of families in nearby villages, which have been ravaged by
HIV/AIDS. The clinic will also serve as an education, nutrition, and
vocational training center for the region.
Tanzania Project
We are partnering with a non-profit organization based in Tanzania to help facilitate the on-site construction and implementation of the project. We hope to begin construction of the health care center in the coming months.
Physicians from the U.S. recently visited the area and reported back on their visit:
"In each village, the volume of patients was so large that the group was unable to care for everyone. Many patients had never before seen a physician, and many children had received no immunizations. The supply of medications in the nearest pharmacy is limited to several bottles of Tylenol. Working from school classrooms and churches with dirt floors, physicians in make-shift clinics treated over 400 patients. The top five diagnoses were malaria, respiratory illnesses, urinary tract infections, arthritic conditions, and intestinal parasites."
Madison Cassady Program
| The Madison Cassady Program enables a mother who has lost her child to donate breast milk to a child who has lost his or her mother or is ill. When a mother loses her baby in the critical care unit, she often has breast milk in her freezer. The gift of giving this milk, "a donation of life," can be emotionally healing and fulfilling, to the grieving mother and life saving to the receiving child. The donation is truly an honor to the memory of the child who has died. Milk donated to the program goes to aid the orphans in Africa and to babies in neonatal intensive care units in the US. |
 Click here to learn more about the program
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