What is the National Breastfeeding Media-Watch Campaign?
Participate in this campaign. If you get a response, report to your troop how the media received your participation. (Juniors, Cadets) Invite children in your community to enter a World Breastfeeding Month Coloring Contest. You may work with community supermarkets to donate brown bags on which children may create breastfeeding pictures. Then return them to the store so the colorful bags with Breastfeeding messages would go home with shoppers. The store could display the colorful bags and announce first, second, third place winners and honorable mentions for all the rest. Art teachers could judge. Perhaps your local newspaper would print a World Breastfeeding Month Coloring Page in their early-August Sunday edition. Children could color the picture, return it to the newspaper and the winners picture could be printed in the next Sunday paper. Work with local health clinic personnel, churches and libraries to set up free breast exams and mammograms in low-income neighborhoods. Along with
