Vitamin Angels photographer Matt Dayka reflects on his experience photographing, and sharing photos with, the people of the Peruvian mountain villages Vitamin Angels recently visited:
It’s no secret that I think I have the best job in the world. I get to travel the world, take photos, play with kids, and be a part of something as positive and powerful as Vitamin Angels. In searching for a way to connect further and give back even more with the children and women I capture, I came acro...
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posted in Thrive to Five | Vitamin Angels | Notes from the Field | Staff
Bjorn Lomborg, Danish environmentalist and author, explores the issue of global hunger in this Slate piece, “How to Get Food on Every Table.”
In the article, Lomborg notes that despite the surplus of food grown, raised, and produced on this planet, “there are 925 million hungry people in the world, and nearly 180 million preschool-age children do not get vital nutrients.”
The last two Copenhagen Consensus projects (a conference held every four years where economic expert...
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posted in Child Mortality | Children’s health | Copenhagen Consensus | Global Data | Undernutrition | Maternal and Child Health | Multiple Micronutrients
This blog was written by Brittany Andrews, who is an account manager for Vitamin Angels. She recently joined VA’s President, Howard Schiffer on an observational trip to Peru to meet some of the mothers and children receiving multivitamins through our Thrive to Five program.
We have battled the elements, gotten stuck in creeks, mudslides, hail storms, and rain, so much rain. The rain is hard and cold and the sun is hot. I will find myself shivering and then stripping off 5 layers in a 15-m...
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Vitamin Angels was high in the Andes of Peru last week. We want to share our experience there, as captured by our photographer Matt Dayka. We love the vivid woolen clothes. We also love the dignity and strength in the faces of those who live and thrive in the unique, sometimes hard, life at a high altitude. To learn more about Vitamin Angels' trip to Peru, including Notes from the Field, tweets and our blog, click here.
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posted in children's multivitamins | Children’s health | DESEA Perú | peru | prenatals
According to the World Bank’s Global Monitoring Report, the rise in food prices last year led to many serious consequences for children – reduced nutritional intake, withdrawals from school, and impaired development. Families cannot afford to give their children adequate nutrition, affecting children’s health and cognitive development, particularly in the crucial time period between conception and two years old.
The report says: "Even temporarily high food prices can affec...
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posted in Children’s health
Our drive to the small village of Sasicancha was long and breathtaking. The jutting peaks of the Andes, rich green from the rains and set against a purple grey backdrop could literally knock the wind out of you, and did – all of us have experienced various symptoms of altitude sickness since arriving. We climbed higher and higher, peaking at 14,200ft. I was caught between my awe for the beauty of these incredible surroundings and my realization that people were living here. This is a gr...
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posted in children under five | children's multivitamins | DESEA Perú | natures own | peru | Thrive to Five | Vitamin Angels | Notes from the Field
Rita Chovan of Ottawa Township, Illinois is no stranger to non-profit events – she’s organized for the local St. Baldrick’s Foundation for 9 years.
So when her daughter, Alex Chovan, a freshman at Ottawa Township High School came home with the assignment from her high school Honors World History class to organize a fundraiser or awareness raising event on the plight of malnutrition, she sprang right into her non-profit promotions role. Gently guiding the girls – Alex, Ke...
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posted in Vitamin Angels | Get Involved | Maternal and Child Health
The Sahel region of West and Central Africa suffered through the droughts of 2011 and the consequent poor harvests and livestock production as well as rising food prices. The effects of the drought have carried over into 2012: the Sahel food crisis has caused widespread starvation and malnutrition. While this arid area immediately south of the Sahara is no stranger to harsh conditions, this “hunger season” is particularly devastating.
UNICEF reported that an estimated 1 million child...
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posted in Africa | children under five | Children’s health
Our partners at Nature’s Own are entering their second year with Vitamin Angels and we couldn’t be more pleased. Last year’s partnership launch included extensive marketing efforts all across Australia and New Zealand, where they worked tirelessly to help spread the word about Vitamin Angels and the great impact the partnership is having on children around the world. All together, Nature’s Own donated enough to reach over 1.5 million children in 2011! This year, through a...
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Vitamin Angels and our grantee in the Philippines, Food for the Hungry, have reached 2,841 children and 1,678 women with multivitamins. Here are photos of a few of our recipients – some of which seem to be a little preoccupied with the vitamin bottles - shaking and chewing on them. They must have known the good stuff was just inside waiting to get out! :)
Photos credited to Food for the Hungry.
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posted in not for profit organization | Thrive to Five | Multivitamins | Child health
Mother Teresa famously said, “Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.” A 7-year-old named Madilyn embodies this sentiment. We were inspired by the story of Madilyn and her Vitamin Angels Giving Quarter Jar and wanted to learn more.
Madilyn gets a quarter every time she’s good – pretty standard incentive for good behavior. But, unlike many children, Madilyn chooses to donate those quarters to Vitamin Angels. Madilyn and her mother Hi...
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We’re excited to see the issue of child malnutrition addressed by global leaders, influential organizations and press during the May 2012 NATO summit in Chicago.
A May 21st session on the topic will be hosted by the 1,000 Days Summit, an initiative created by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2010. The 1,000 days refers to the most critical time in child development – from conception until 2 years old.
“Addressing nutrition for pregnant women and children before age...
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posted in children under five | Children’s health | not for profit organization | Child health | Maternal health
Amy Steets is the Program Manager at Vitamin Angels. She works tirelessly to connect nutrients with children and pregnant women. After seeing the article “A Nutrition Puzzle” in the February 18, 2012 issue of the Economist, she wrote this letter to the editor. We’ve reprinted it as is:
Dear Editor,
I find it exceedingly appropriate that The Economist is reporting on matters related to nutrition on a more frequent basis. Your emphasis is paralleling a global shift in understandi...
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posted in Children’s health | not for profit organization | operation 2020 | Uzbekistan | Vitamin Angels
Vitamin Angels was invited to speak at the 39th Annual National Conference of IAPSM (Indian Association of Preventive and Social Medicine) 2012 at DR R.P. Government Medical College - Tanda, Kangra, Himachal Pradesh between 27th to 29th February 2012. The theme of the conference was: “Epidemiological Transition: Are we up to the challenge?” Vitamin Angels Independent Consultant Dr. Shilpa Vinod.
Bhatte presented at the Conference on how Vitamin Angels was using its limite...
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posted in operation 2020 | Vitamin A Deficiency | Operation 20/20 | VA Ambassadors | Vitamin Angels | Vitamin A | Child health
Imagine what a coincidence it would be to see your next door neighbor halfway around the world. That’s sort of what happened to Chad Relief Foundation president Bill Felstiner when he chanced upon this Vitamin Angels bottle of vitamin A when inspecting a health center in Chad last month.
Chad Relief Foundation is, like Vitamin Angels, a nonprofit based in Santa Barbara and one of Vitamin Angels’ partners in Chad.
CRF took these pictures at a UNHCR camp called Moyo, a few kilometers o...
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posted in operation 2020 | Vitamin A
