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Name:
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Milk Matters - in need of Breastmilk
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Western Cape
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Area:
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All
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Address:
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PO Box 18050, Wynberg, 7824
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Phone:
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Jenny Wright 083 771 6230
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Email:
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info@milkmatters.org
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Website:
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http://www.milkmatters.org/
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Description:
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Milk Matters is a non-profit organisation, which was started, on a volunteer basis, in Cape Town in 2003 by a group of lactation consultants and two mothers. They were inspired by Durban's Ithemba Lethu Breastmilk Bank which was set up to provide breastmilk to infants who had been abandoned or orphaned as a result of their mothers suffering from HIV or AIDS. These children are usually nutritionally vulnerable and breastmilk makes an astounding difference to their health. The Cape Town lactation consultants identified a similar need in Cape Town, particularly with the increased prevalence of HIV.
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Initially Milk Matters, formerly known as Western Cape Human Milk Bank, worked with orphans in an orphanage but there were too few small babies who needed the donor milk and the focus soon changed to feeding premature babies in hospitals.
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Donating breastmilk to Milk Matters is a very simple process. Just follow these simple steps and you will be making a huge difference to a baby in need:
- Contact Milk Matters for further information and expressing and milk storage instructions
- Complete a screening form.
- Collect sterile glass jars provided by Milk Matters
- Express breastmilk into the sterile jars
- Label the jars with your name and the date
- Cool the milk immediately and freeze within 24 hours
- Deliver frozen breastmilk to Milk Matters depots situated in various areas.
Where this is not possible Milk Matters will arrange to deliver jars and collect the breastmilk from the mother. The screening form includes questions on general health and an undertaking by the donor mother to provide a written, recent HIV test result to Milk Matters. Long-term donors will be requested to repeat the HIV test.
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Milk Matters, a registered Public Benefit Organisation, provides pasteurised donor breastmilk free of charge for vulnerable babies who need it and relies entirely on donations and community support in various forms to maintain and expand our service.
By donating to Milk Matters, you can make a difference. It could save a baby's life.
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Support Groups
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Category:
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Services
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Weather:
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All
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Age:
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0
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1
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