Breastfeeding saves life, protects a baby from diseases, and provides a child the best in life.
Breastfeeding Pinays (BFP), Department of Health (DOH), SM Cares, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) with funding from Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), and World Vision seek to protect, promote and support breastfeeding, as well as celebrate the National Breastfeeding Awareness Month with Hakab Na! 2019. Hakab Na is an annual breastfeeding event that gathers hundreds of mothers who will latch their babies at the same time for at least a minute.
Optimal breastfeeding has the potential to significantly reduce child mortality more than any other preventive Intervention. Saline up breastfeeding to a near‘universal level could prevent 823,000 child deaths per year globally, according to the scientific journal The Lancet. By supporting mothers to practice proper breastfeeding, nearly half of diarrhea episodes and a third of respiratory infections would be avoided. Breastfeeding has also been found to reduce the risk of childhood obesity and dlabetes in children.