WABA Celebrated 29th anniversary

WABA Celebrate 29th Anniversary With Breastfeeding Promotion Icons
The World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action, WABA, on the 10th October 2008 organized a cultural evening at the International Secretariat to celebrate the 29th Anniversary of the organization. The occasion was also associated to the celebration of the 80th Birth Day of an icon of breastfeeding promotion, Pr, Dr. Michael Latham.
The staff at the International Secretariat planned a mix of activities which included the show of the premises housing the offices with each staff introduced to the members of the steering committee. An orchestra was put in place to produce live music and the breastfeeding icons from La Leche League International, LLLI, the International Lactation Consultant Association, ILCA, IBFAN and WABA went on stage spontaneously to present meaning theatre that depicted some of the problems the different movements wished to correct in the different regions of the world.
It was an evening for all ages as we found kids on stage to highlight the need to gender mainstream activities starting with the youths, as sweet songs were reproduced with play back system to animate the parents.
As the cake of the anniversary was unveiled, Co-Director, Susan Siew invited the Coordinator of WABA Men’s Working Group, James Achanyi-Fontem, to accompany her on stage in an African traditional show with talking drum from Mozambique, which got everybody dancing with joy,
In one of the theatre videos of the anniversary celebration put on the “Not For Fathers Only” you tube, WABA Co-Director Sarah Amin is found acting the role of referee with the red nose that was just a way of keeping all the 54 members of the WABA Think Tank awake throughout the 29th Anniversary evening. Before this occasion, the International Coordinator of the World Breastfeeding Week Olympic Marathon Competition, Julianna Lim Abdullah, had notified Cameroon Link through a member of the jury of the Gold Medal Award 2008 in the pipeline due to the satisfactory performance of the Africa Region through Cameroon. The medal was accompanied by the certificate attached to this story.
It was an occasion everyone would like to see repeated in the future, as it was not all work in Penang, Malaysia. For more on this article, click on http://camlinknews.blogspot,com/ and http://uk.youtube,com/camlink99 for the video version of the events. For information on the World Breastfeeding Week in Cameroon, please click on the following link - http://www.worldbreastfeedingweek.net/wbw2008/cameroon.htm