Donors are not paid! No incentives given. It is purely a voluntary act that comes from a large heart. The recipient may be charged a nominal amount that would go towards maintaining and care of milk bank.
What happens in the milk bank?

• Donor recruitment
• Donor screening
• Collection of milk
• Pooling of milk
• Pasteurisation to sterilise
• Post pasteurisation culture to confirm sterilisation
• Storage
• Disbursal
• Maintenance of records
• Steps for donation

Any happy healthy mother can donate. After washing hands, she can express BM directly or with the help of breast pump into a clean steel container that can be closed with a lid. Aliquots of 30-100 ml can be expressed at a time into the container and closed and placed in the freezer of the home refrigerator.

Throughout the day and over the next three to four days, more expressed milk can be added to the same container and put to freeze.
When the capacity is 250-300 ml or more it can be sent to the NICU in an ice box. There is an opportunity to request for pick-up of the milk, if distance is practical, to the hospital. The container will be returned to the mother. Regular long term donors will be given ready steel containers of 130-150 ml capacity. Even 100 ml donors are welcome.
A mother can start donating as early as she wishes. It is a known fact that breast milk is augmented by frequent expression.
Mothers, as old as one year into breast feeding are donating milk to the milk bank. Lactation counsellors are on hand in the hospital to help in need.