A Lifelong Connection
Obituary To Mom: All your years of La Leche League…how passionate, dedicated you were to bring your breastfeeding & natural birth knowledge, experiences you fought for in the 1950’s, 60’s to guide woman of the 1970’s 80’s. I recently ran into a woman who remembered you being her saving grace with her firstborn 50…
Are next members only Virtual Happy Hour is scheduled for WEDNESDAY, NOV 3, 2021 at UTC 22:00 (6:00 pm Eastern, 5:00 pm Central, 4:00 pm Mountain, 3:00 pm Pacific.) We encourage participants to join us with a snack and beverage of your choice. While every Happy Hour has been a bit different, we typically talk…
Con mucha tristeza desde Liga de La Leche despedimos a nuestra amiga Silvia Llenas, Líder voluntaria de LLL por 29 años, quien coordinó el Departamento de Acreditación de nuevas Líderes de Argentina y Latinoamérica. Fue una formadora incansable y entrañable que encarnó el espíritu de servicio y entrega y lo sembró en cada una de…
Kathy Funston lived in Bakersfield, California, a long drive from Los Angeles/Long Beach where So. California/Nevada held its bi-annual Area Conferences. Kathy was a Group Leader before becoming involved with the Conference Department. She was a website developer for a firm in the Kern County/Bakersfield area and shared her talents with LLL. She was active…
Christine Bruni became a Leader in 1999. She worked also as pedeatrician and reached a lot of mothers. At our German conference 2020 she did a brilliant session in regard of tongue tie. She was one of these special international LLL women, born in Italy, but also fluent in English and German. Her death came…
LLL Leader Francesca Parisi applied for a Mini-Grant to undertake an LLL “Breastfeeding Tour of Southern Italy” in order to expand LLL reach in an underserved part of the country. She shares this report of the tour: The tour of the south is divided into three parts: a day in Melfi (Potenza) Basilicata a tour…
Vered Leb, a Leader on the LLL Israel Inclusivity Committee, led the application for a Mini-Grant to help provide breastfeeding education materials for Arabic-speaking mothers in Israel. The project team was able to employ the grant money wisely to deliver information in many different formats. Specifically, the team translated many articles from Hebrew into Arabic…
LLL Leader Jen Rosenthal applied for a Mini-Grant to fund education programs for LLL Maine/New Hampshire Leaders. Jen reports that their first workshop with Re+Birth Equity Alliance was held on February 27, 2021. The program was held virtually and made available to Alliance Leaders from around the country. They set a low fee for the…
The local LLL Group in State College, Pennsylvania Group planned to use their Mini-Grant funds to implement a Zoom meeting platform, prepare new materials, and find other ways to help them reach out to more mothers and keep their Group thriving. Unfortunately, local COVID-19 restrictions made some of their ideas unfeasible, so they decided to…
LLL Leader Simela Petridou of South Africa received a Mini-Grant to help fund the purchaseand distribution of copies of the latest version of The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding to librariesthroughout the country. The books were ordered for shipping from the United Kingdom and it was quite an odyssey for the shipment, which was literally on…