This is an occasion to celebrate World Breastfeeding Week 2026 (1-7 August) with the theme: “Breastfeeding for a Sustainable Start in Life: Strengthen What Works”. World Breastfeeding Week 2026: Liquid Gold” | RV College of Nursing For every drop, a lifeline, for every breath a start, a mother’s gift of gold straight from the heart. On the stage of the world, or a bed in Bengaluru, we bear the promise — each baby fed. The World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action, along with the World Health Organization and UNICEF, calls on sharing the world each August to see how the world’s simplest, most powerful public health intervention is possible in any new-born’s world—human milk. The theme for World Breastfeeding Week 2026 is “Breastfeeding for a Sustainable Start in Life: Strengthen What Works”, a message not so much to start new programmes as to build and reinforce systems that work and save lives. Now is the time to reflect on one of the most material and tangible expressions of that principle: the human milk bank, and to trace the relevance of that expression from the global to the local context of our own neonatal units: that of the city of Aichi.