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From one little dream to a national movement for human milk banking in Uganda.

This month, our Founder and our neonatal training lead was deeply humbled to receive an award recognising her contribution to human milk banking in Uganda.

In her words: “I am so humbled and overwhelmed to see that our learning and experience from our little milk bank in Mbale has been able to contribute to the Ugandan National Guidelines.”

Five years ago, human milk banking in a government hospital in Uganda was just a dream. Today, our little Human Milk Bank in Mbale has been working for three years — supporting babies and their families, raising national awareness of the importance of donor human milk, and now contributing to the National Guidelines for Human Milk Banking in Uganda. 

What started as one small milk bank is growing. In the coming year, we will join other partners to support the launch of human milk banks in three more hospitals in Uganda - helping bring safe donor human milk to more small and sick newborns who need it.  And this journey began with a family dream. 

Five years ago, her three daughters — then just 7, 5 and 3 years old — spent five days climbing Mount Elgon to raise the funds needed to open Uganda’s first human milk bank in a government hospital. 

Since then, the family of human milk banking has grown to include incredible national partners, not-for-profits, neonatologists, nurses, midwives, researchers and so many others like yourselves who have shared this vision and helped turn it into reality.

There is still so much to do. But looking back, we have come so very far in five years. 

This award belongs not to one person, but to everyone who believed that every small and sick newborn deserves access to the milk they need to survive and thrive. Thank you to every single person who has believed in, supported and contributed to this journey. But this is only the beginning and we need your support to continue. Please get your friends and family to make a regular monthly donation to our projects so we can continue to save more tiny lives.