Giving Digest: The Lifeline in a Little Bag
Tracy Ahumuza turned personal grief into public good after losing her newborn daughter, Alyssa, in a crisis where timely colostrum and lactation support could have changed everything. That loss sparked the ATTA Breastmilk Community (founded in 2021), a nonprofit built on safe milk sharing, screening donors, preserving milk properly, and getting lifesaving donor breastmilk to premature, low-birthweight, and medically fragile babies when their mothers cannot produce enough. As demand grew, ATTA evolved from simply connecting donors and recipients to building real systems: safe transport, education for health workers, advocacy for milk banking, and even acquiring a small pasteuriser through crowdfunding despite high costs. To date, ATTA has collected and dispensed about 600 litres of donor milk to 400+ newborns, powered by donors, volunteers, and partners, proving that sometimes the smallest bags of “liquid gold” can carry the biggest hope.