Once I began the San Diego Breastfeeding Middle Basis in 2016, my mission was to take away racial and financial boundaries for BIPOC and low-income chest/breastfeeding households in San Diego. After years of witnessing barrier after barrier for these households, I made a decision to BE the change, quite than simply speak about what wanted to alter.
Nevertheless, this modification would NEVER have been doable with out funding from our loving purchasers and household, our main donors, and neighborhood companions. With YOUR beneficiant donations, paired with grants from Influence Companions, The Jem Mission, Postpartum Well being Alliance, Kaiser Household Basis, International Communities, San Diego Girls Give, United Healthcare, Kindred Bravely, Little Star Pediatric Dentistry, and the California Endowment, have a look at all we’ve completed!
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Since 2016, SDBFC Basis has offered over 1300 free/reduced-fee lactation consultations for BIPOC and low-income households.
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Since 2021, we’ve offered 16 scholarships to BIPOC people to additional their training in changing into a lactation skilled of their communities; professionals to lastly present culturally-congruent, low-barrier care.
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In 2022, we opened 2 lactation clinics; one within the San Diego Neighborhood Start Middle (the ONLY black-owned start heart in San Diego) and one in Southeast San Diego (to be introduced subsequent month!)
None of those accomplishments might have occurred with out help from our wonderful neighborhood, whom we’re so grateful for! Will you assist us proceed this momentum into 2023?
$25 pays for pump provides throughout a lactation session
$50 pays for staffing a breastfeeding help group
$100 pays for one lactation session
$1500 pays for a scale for a brand new BIPOC lactation marketing consultant
We nonetheless have a lot work to do. Will you be a part of us in altering the panorama of Chest/Breastfeeding Help in San Diego?
Click on right here to donate immediately!
Gratefully,
Founder and Govt Director, San Diego Breastfeeding Middle Basis