Today the Vitamin Angels staff got the privilege of meeting Denny and Paula Lofstrom, two of three founders of International Health Partners, one of our grantees of our Thrive to Five program in Tanzania. Paula and Denny have a clear passion for the people of Tanzania. Paula is a born storyteller with a sense of humor and natural aptitude for marketing. Denny is an MD with a masters in tropical medicine.
They presented Vitamin Angels with a beautiful elephant grass basket, a gift from an expert...
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We're happy to share this guest blog from one of our new implementation partners in Afghanistan, AmeriCares.
It's not easy to be a child in Afghanistan: Approximately 50 percent of children suffer from ill health and poor growth due to malnutrition. One in five Afghan children does not reach the age of five, and many more are at risk for disease and poor development due to malnutrition. Afghanistan has one of the highest infant mortality rates in the world. (The World Health Organizatio...
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Four of our staff set out last Tuesday month for Santa Ana, California, two hours south of Santa Barbara, (where our offices are located), to visit with Serve the People, one of our domestic grantees who distributes multivitamins to mothers in need. Each of us has been abroad to see our international programs in action in countries across the world. This time it was a joy to connect with one of our local partners helping us to bring essential nutrients to mothers in need here in our own "ba...
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Check out these new photos from Haiti Foundation of Hope that made our day. Together we are reaching 1,302 pregnant and lactating women with multivitamins and 5,000 infants and children with vitamin A through our Thrive to Five and Operation 20/20 programs.
Go here for additional photos from Haiti Foundation of Hope;
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Check out these photos from a new grantee in Cameroon: Cameroon Christian Welfare Medical Foundation. Together we are reaching 21,000 children with vitamin A, 11,750 children with albendazole, and 746 women with multivitamins through our Thrive to Five and Operation 20/20 programs.
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We are thrilled to share this inspiring video from Fonkoze, one of our field partners in Haiti. The video shows a mother named Antonia receiving health information and vitamin A from Vitamin Angels for her new baby (2 minutes, 12 seconds in). With the help of Fonkoze, we are reaching 2,237 mothers like Antonia with multivitamins and 25,497 children through Thrive to Five. Together we are also reaching 114,500 children in Haiti with vitamin A through Operation 20/20.
Produced by Good Eye Video.
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David Foreman, the Herbal Pharmacist, is joining Team Vitamin Angels, running the LA Marathon and raising money to support Vitamin Angels! Check out his update below on training to run 26.2 miles on behalf of Vitamin Angels!
This past weekend finished my first 8 weeks of training for the Los Angeles Marathon. I am using the App developed by Hal Higdon as my guide for how to train my body. In addition to using his App, I am using many local experts to assist me in my dietary and physi...
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We are thrilled to announce that Sight and Life is extending our partnership to help us reach millions of at-risk children with vitamin A! Sight and Life is a nonprofit humanitarian initiative of DSM, a global science-based company active in health, nutrition and materials. Working together since 2006, Vitamin Angels will now take on “the responsibility for both the management of direct distribution of vitamin A and Sight and Life’s initiatives intended to catalyze locally sustainabl...
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In a recent newsletter, Give Children A Choice, our field partner in Laos, shares an inspiring update. Together, we are working to connect children in need with essential nutrients in Laos where 40% of children suffer from chronic malnutrition.
“We were blessed with a generous donation from Santa Barbara-based Vitamin Angels to distribute one year’s worth of daily multiple vitamins to 24,000 preschool children. We distributed three quarters of the vitamins. The impa...
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David Forman, the Herbal Pharmacist, is joining Team Vitamin Angels, running the LA Marathon and raising money to support Vitamin Angels! Check out his blog below about what inspires him to run 26.2 miles on behalf of Vitamin Angels!
Before I go any further, let me first say that I truly HATE running. Hate is not a good word and should never really be used, but in my case there is no other appropriate word to describe my feelings about running. Many friends and acquaintances’ have s...
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The Vitamin Angels Programs team recently went to Vietnam for ten days to monitor Vietnam’s national vitamin A campaigns with our field partner, the Vietnamese National Institute of Nutrition (NIN). Read what Eva Haase, Vitamin Angels Program Coordinator, said about the trip:
As the Program Coordinator, I am responsible for key aspects of grantee relationship maintenance and for technical support and educational materials for field use. Understanding how to create effective, quality suppor...
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Vitamin Angels would like to recognize Tishcon Corporation for their continued support of our Thrive to Five program. For nearly a decade, Tishcon has partnered with Vitamin Angels to bring vital nutrients to the individuals who need them most. In 2011 alone, Tishcon generously manufactured nearly 3 million children’s chewable multivitamins which are reaching at-risk children in Honduras and are on their way to children in U.S. and around the world. Special thanks as well to Sabinsa for th...
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Fri, 12/16/2011 - 12:05pm
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On Sunday night Robin Lim, founder of Bumi Sehat one of Vitamin Angels' partners in Indonesia, was named the 2011 CNN Hero of the Year. Referred to as “Mother Robin” or “Ibu Robin” by the locals, Lim has helped thousands of Indonesian women in need have a health pregnancy and birth through the Yayasan Bumi Sehat health clinics. The clinics offer free prenatal care, birthing services and medical aid for those who cannot afford services. Lim opened the clinics several y...
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Tue, 12/13/2011 - 10:02am
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This year’s World Disasters Report by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent highlighted the rise of hunger and malnutrition, its causes, and what can be done to help. “Every year some 9 million children across the world die before they reach their fifth birthday, and about one-third of these untimely deaths is attributed to undernutrition (Black et al., 2008).” According to the report, up to 90 percent of these deaths do not occur during food crises or fami...
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This morning, Vitamin Angels' president Howard Schiffer was on Good Day Los Angeles! Check out what he had to say about the organization:
Vitamin Angels' Howard Schiffer on GDLA: MyFoxLA.com
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