I was a Leader (Breastfeeding Peer Councilor) in LLL for years.
In that time I suffered more discrimination and abuse (I am queer) than in any other area of my life.
This included the BOD inviting myself and other LGBTQ+ Leaders to resign from the organization if we did not be quite about the discrimination we saw or experienced.
The BOD even went on to create “gag order” policies that gave them the power to remove publicly out spoken Leaders.
I know from internal questionnaires and data collecting, that this organization is not diverse by any stretch of the imagination.
This is further proved by the fact they have a known trans exclusionary radical feminist on their BOD, which you can google.
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- 4931 Cornell Downers Grove IL 60515 USA
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Causes: Health, Health Care
Mission: To help mothers worldwide to breastfeed through mother-to-mother support, encouragement, information and education, and to promote a better understanding of breastfeeding as an important element in the healthy development of the baby and the mother.
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- LLLI provides over $33 million per year of in-kind services. LLLI reaches well over 300,000 people in 63 countries every month. Approximately 39,000 Leaders have been accredited in the past 44 years. Each LLL Group is attended by an average of 10 women per month, with many Groups attracting 20-30 mothers. LLLI's Center for Breastfeeding Information (CBI) contains more than 17,000 full-length research studies with more than 300 categories of breastfeeding data and adds over 125 new studies a month. The LLLI Board of Directors includes members from six countries.
- 7 LLLI maintains consultative status with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), official working relations with the World Health Organization (WHO), acts as a registered Private Voluntary Organization (PVO) for the Agency of International Development (USAID), is an accredited member of the US Healthy Mothers/Healthy Babies Coalition, and is a founding member of the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA)
- LLLI is a member of the Child Survival Collaborations and Resources Group (CORE).
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