Mothers nurse their babies during an Aug. 15, 2013, event in Denver to promote breast-feeding. (Denver Post file)
Re: “Boulder agencies get grant to promote breast-feeding in businesses,” April 6 news story.
Letap see what $420,000 would pay for:
• 218,750 meals at the Denver Rescue Mission;
• 14,000 weeks of Meals on Wheels from Volunteers of America;
• 8,235 days of assisted-living housing and services for low-income elderly or disabled persons at Senior Housing Options;
• 123 slots on the waiting list of more than 5,700 for the Colorado Preschool Program; or
• 70 $6,000 nursing tuition scholarships at Metropolitan State University of Denver.
Instead, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment is funding a program to help Boulder businesses create and equip “safe lactation spaces” — even though “rates for breast-feeding in Boulder County already meet national goals.”
State priorities? Really?
Jane Prancan,Denver
This letter was published in the April 20 edition.
