Message
from the World Conference on Women
The
following message was sent to LLLI Home Office and Executive Director
Lee Ann Deal would like to share it. It is from our three representatives
attending the 4th World Conference on Women in Beijing, China.
Hello!
We are
busy from early morning to late evening, it's GREAT! Seeing thousands
of women from literally every country in the world is AWESOME!
The dress, the different languages - it's like being surrounded
'by the world.' We're talking breastfeeding with everyone - with
anyone we even 'brush up against' in an elevator-giving out our
business cards, taking theirs.
So many
times women have said, "I'm so glad you're here! League helped
me when I needed it" - we're working with the other WABA people,
presenting talks at workshops, and participating in other workshops
- (wo)manning the WABA booth.
The mime
theatre group is FABULOUS! They draw people in to hear the breastfeeding
message in a fun, but emotional way. Our next task, already started,
is speaking with delegates to gain support for the breastfeeding
wording in the document. Since we started this fax we attended
a WHO-sponsored Health Colloquium, at which Hillary Clinton was
the only speaker to mention support and promotion of breastfeeding;
after which we were interviewed by CNN on our way out of the building
to ask our purpose in attending the Conference. And then we met
Donna Shalala, DHHS, who said, "Oh yes- I know LLL!" So on to
bigger and even better things. We miss you all.
Marian
(Tompson-Founder) Rebecca (Magalhaes, Director International Development)
and Vicky (sorry, last name unknown, N. J. Leader)
Last updated Monday, September 18, 2006 by sjs.
Page last edited Sun Oct 14 09:34:02 UTC 2007.
