Over 2,000 mothers gathered on Saturday to breastfeed their babies together on the the 50th Association of Southeast Asian Nations Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Manila in the Philippines.
The event was themed Hakab Na! – a reference to a baby latching onto a mother’s breast – is the largest gathering of breastfeeding families in the Philippines, and coincided with the Global Big Latch On, which encourages women to gather at registered locations around the world to breastfeed their children simultaneously.
In the Philippines, Hakab Na! has been held in August since 2013 as part of the Philippines’ National Breastfeeding Awareness Month and World Breastfeeding Week.
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