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WASHINGTON (March 17, 2008)—Lamaze International awarded three International Development Mini-Grants, ranging from $1,000 to $1,500, to support the development or expansion of international affiliate programs, international program development and related costs. Recipients were chosen from the Czech Republic, India and Romania.

This year’s chosen recipients will use the money in various ways:

• Aperio Healthy Parenting Association in the Czech Republic will use their grant to translate the Lamaze Six Care Practices that Support Normal Birth
• Bangalore Birth Network will use their grant to translate and expand print and Web media and to host a Normal Birth Film Festival in India
• Oana Melinte-Moraru of Romania will use her grant to translate "Prepared Childbirth – The Family Way" and "Prepared Childbirth – The Educator’s Way" into Romanian
• Grant awardees must submit a final report, including a project summary and a detailed review of actual expenditures of the grant funds. For more information or to apply for a Lamaze International Development Mini-Grant, visit www.lamaze.org.

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About Lamaze International
Since its founding in 1960, Lamaze International has worked to promote, support and protect normal birth through education and advocacy through the dedicated efforts of professional childbirth educators, providers and parents. An international organization with regional, state and area affiliates, its members and volunteer leaders include childbirth educators, nurses, midwives, doulas, lactation consultants, physicians, students and consumers. For more information about Lamaze International and the Lamaze Institute for Normal Birth, visit www.lamaze.org.

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