Mark Potočnjak contacted us back in February of 2010. He was a marathon runner and race competitor, a person close to the natural products and supplement industry, and had an understanding of the global problem of childhood undernutrition. He also had a vision for Vitamin Angels - the creation of a team of passionate individuals committed to running, swimming, biking and being active for Vitamin Angels' work. Not long after, Team Vitamin Angels was born and Mark had organized a group to tra...
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Vitamin Angels received the below update and photos from our partners at Cristo Salva in Honduras where they are distributing children's multivitamins and prenatal vitamins.
We continue to see a marked difference in those that take vitamins and deworming meds and those that do not.
We are “catching up” with our deworming, but should be up to speed by the end of the school year in December. We have found a few “bellys” so we have our work cut out for us.
Wit...
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Okay I have a confession – I really wasn’t very familiar with the B-52's beyond having heard 'Love Shack' before last Friday night’s concert at the Lowell Summer Music Series where Vitamin Angels was the honorary guest. Everything changed once the music started flowing. I learned that the B-52's hold the illustrious title of the 'Party Band of the Century'. People were wildly dancing and so excited to be partying the night away with their favorite band doing all of their classi...
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Our partners at the Boadi Foundation sent along some new photos of distributions of vitamin A that have been taking place over the past few months. Together with the Boadi Foundation we are reaching 12,000 children in the Volta region of Ghana this year!
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October 14th is World Sight Day followed by World Food Day on October 16th, and Vitamin Angels and It's Moringa have partnered together to #endhiddenhunger by raising money for VA's vitamin A and multiple micronutrient programs - Operation 20/20 and Thrive to Five. Just include the hashtag #endhiddenhunger in your tweets from October 14-16th, and It's Moringa will donate 1 cent for every hashtag tweeted (up to $1,000). Since it only takes 25 cents to provide a ...
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In July, researchers at the University of New Mexico proposed a new explanation behind varied overall intelligence averages from country to country – the effect of infectious disease.
Christopher Epigg and his colleagues explain that that the brains of newly born children require 87% of those children’s metabolic energy (44% for five-year olds). “Any competition for this energy is likely to damage the brain’s development, and parasites and pathogens compete for it in sev...
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Despite India’s economic growth over the past decade, the country continues to be compared with Africa in poverty surveys. A recent study reported that India’s poorest states have more people in poverty than Africa’s poorest nations. Hunger indexes are dismal, with 42 percent of all Indian children under age five underweight.
An article last week by the New York Times reporter Jim Yardley, reveals India’s current struggle to alleviate poverty and get food to every family...
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Kathy Browning is a freelance writer, food critic and published author. On her website, The Cheap Gourmet, she provides her readers with recipes, cooking tips, and more. She is also a Vitamin Angels ambassador! Kathy recently wrote an article called "Vitamin A: Top Ten Foods to Boost Immunity and Protect Vision" in support and honor of Vitamin Angels' vitamin A programs.
If you're on our website and made it to the blog, you're probably already aware of the problem of vitamin A deficien...
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Vitamin Angels recently received an update from our partners, Love a Child, in Haiti. Carole Stufflebeam, a Medical Administrator with Love a Child sent the following photos and captions about their distribution of vitamin A and albendazole in the Ouest region of Haiti.
Vitamin Angels has made it possible for LAC’s Jesus Healing Center to reach out in to the very remote areas to see that the children in their zones receive Antiparasitic and Vitamin A.
Through the LAC Mobile Clinics the re...
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The Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma, one of our Thrive to Five partners in the U.S., sent out these photos of pre and postnatal multivitamins they received from Vitamin Angels this week!
"Vitamins are not something we normally get donated, but today, we received a donation of 21,000 bottles of pre and postnatal vitamins from Vitamin Angels. This will help to nourish 10,000 mothers in our service area! A very special thank you to Vitamin Angels - they help women and children around the w...
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Last Friday, I headed south to Los Angeles, California to meet with our local partners at the Northeast Community Clinics. We met at the largest of their 11 clinics in the Los Angeles area, the California Family Care Clinic, located in the heart of downtown LA. There I met with Angie Armada, Operations Director, and Lupe Rosales, Clinic Manager.
According to Lupe, the California Family Care Clinic alone sees about 200 patients a day. About 50% are indigent with no income and no health ins...
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Recently, Vitamin Angels received the below update from our partners at No Time for Poverty in Haiti.
No Time for Poverty (NTFP), a 501c3 in St. Paul, MN, has been working in Haiti since 2004. Currently we are developing a comprehensive community health care program for children ages one day to sixteen years old. The program includes a pediatric clinic (currently under construction) in Port Salut, Haiti, and a community outreach program for children ages one day to five years old.&nb...
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Last week we received an update from our partners at Haiti Foundation of Hope which included several pictures from their recent trip in June. The descriptions were provided by our contact, Joe Markee:
These photos "typify what we are trying to accomplish by seeing children who are happy, disease-free and active."
"One of our students eating the only daily meal she'll get (that means a good percentage of our school children are not fed over the week-end; you can imagine t...
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Last week we had a special visitor here at the Vitamin Angels office in Santa Barbara. Sister Denise Desil a nun, healthcare worker, and Vitamin Angels’ field partner from Haiti came to report on the conditions post-earthquake and how our support is helping the people of rural Haiti.
Sister Denise works as a nurse and midwife for the Little Sisters of St. Thérese serving the rural community of Baraderes. Vitamin Angels connected with their group through our partners Hope for ...
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The latest Zimbabwe Food and National Nutrition Survey, carried out by UNICEF et al., noted that nearly 12,000 child deaths each year in the Zimbabwe may be attributable to maternal and child under-nutrition. The prevalence of chronic malnutrition is now 33.8% and only one in 10 children is receiving a diet that is minimally acceptable.
Tinashe, a Zimbabwean single mother of three interviewed by IRIN news, regularly misses a meal so as to stretch her US$90 a month income and provide food f...
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