Mother-baby tents - Albanian camp provides support
Author: BFHI News
Year: 1999
Resource type: News
Mothers and babies benefit from a place of their own: Two success stories.
(1) Albanian camp provides support (2) Story from Honduras and Hurricane Mitch 1998
Taken from BFHI News, UNICEF, Sept/Oct 1999. Technical director of ACF observed how a tent set up to wash babies and staffed by relief workers became an ad hoc meeting place for breastfeeding support. Soon each of the 6 camps in Kukes had a safe space with b/feeding support and relactation programme.
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