La Leche League International
La Leche League (abbreviated: LLL, English: La Leche League, " La Leche " is Spanish for " milk ") is a non-profit organization that promotes breastfeeding. Your task is, pregnant women and lactating mothers in all matters to discuss about breastfeeding and motherhood. It was founded in 1956 in the U.S. and is now represented in 78 countries around the world. La Leche League is internationally recognized as a nonprofit professional organization and is in official relations with the World Health Organization ( WHO). It is a non-denominational and politically neutral institution and represents their experiences and publications in over 30 languages.
The Professional Advisory Board of La Leche League International, which includes professionals and scientists, provides information on the latest research and reviewed the expertise in the LLL publications.
All LLL counselors are mothers with breastfeeding experience, who have undergone training on the LLL breastfeeding counselor. The LLL consultant accompanied parents during lactation and offers them assistance with breastfeeding difficulties and uncertainties in. Issues can be discussed by phone, e-mail and in personal exchange in breastfeeding support groups. The advice is provided exclusively by volunteers. Financed the work of the LLL consultants through donations and memberships.
Austria
La Leche League Austria was founded in 1979.
La Leche League Austria is an association and is divided into districts. Throughout Austria, about 70 La Leche League breastfeeding counselors are volunteers. They make phone consultations and conduct are usually held monthly breastfeeding support groups.
Germany
In Germany La Leche League has been working as a registered association with local breastfeeding support groups since 1977. The association headquarters was then in Bonn and is now in Troisdorf. The first German counselors were at that time still trained in English by La Leche League International of America. After the first years of the La Leche League in Germany, it came in the early eighties to the crisis. The club lost its first chairman along with many consultants and candidates. The precipitated counselors then joined in part to the work community Free breastfeeding support groups together. 1982 Edda Langmann was chosen as the new first chairman, the General Assembly approved a new constitution, the club headquarters were moved from Bonn to Munich.
In 2011, a total of 275 LLL counselors were working for the club. They conferred about 5,840 times by phone and around 5,850 times per email. In the total of 129 breastfeeding support groups around 6,000 visitors were counted.
Switzerland
Promoting breastfeeding in Switzerland began in 1974. Than 100 breastfeeding counselors are volunteers for La Leche League Switzerland ( LLLCH ).