Strength In Numbers
2024 World Breastfeeding Week Webinar
Behind every breastfeeding statistic is a mother trying to reach her breastfeeding goals. In this webinar celebrating World Breastfeeding Week, attendees learned how monitoring policies and programs is essential to creating an environment that enables breastfeeding.
They heard from mothers about their lived experiences, learned from experts on using monitoring to create accountability, and got new ideas from countries who have used monitoring for change.
The webinar, “Strength in Numbers,” was held:
6 August 2024
07:00 London/Lagos
08:00 Cape Town
11:30 New Delhi
15:00 Tokyo
16:00 Brisbane
and
08:00 Vancouver
09:00 Mexico City
11:00 New York
12:00 Rio de Janeiro
Simultaneous interpretation was conducted in English, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, French, and Russian.
The Global Breastfeeding Collective is a partnership of more than 20 prominent international agencies, including the World Health Organization and UNICEF, calling on donors, policymakers, philanthropists and civil society to increase investment in breastfeeding worldwide.
Voices of Mothers
Behind every statistic about breastfeeding programs and policies is a mother trying to reach her infant feeding goals. In this video, created as a part of World Breastfeeding Week 2024, mothers shared their infant feeding experiences and how they were impacted by the presence (or lack) of key breastfeeding supports.