Kim Saam, Vitamin Angels Communications Manager & Executive Assistant, shares a few thoughts as she prepares for her new baby:
One day soon there’s going to be a new man in my life. Though I’ve been waiting around for 9 months for the big day to arrive, it’s nonetheless really hard to wrap my head around the idea that soon there will be a completely new little person in the world and he’ll be calling me ‘mom.’
I’ve had the pleasure of getting t...
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Vitamin Angels’ consultant Dr. Shilpa Vinod Bhatte recently returned from a trip to Northeast India where she met with potential implementation partners interested in incorporating vitamin A supplementation in their ongoing activities in 4 eastern provinces bordering Myanmar. Dr. Shilpa Vinod Bhatte is working to develop a network of local Indian NGO’s, manufacturers and donor corporations to create a locally sustainable supply and distribution system for vitamin...
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The Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (IGME), led by the United Nations Children’s Fund and the World Health Organization, released a 2010 year-end report on child mortality in 2009. The report describes progress on Millennium Development Goal 4 which calls for reducing the under-five mortality rate by two-thirds by 2015. The study says that “Globally, the number of deaths among children under age five has fallen from 12.4 million in 1990 to 8.1 million in 2009....
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So I left my baby girl for a night to fly down to Anaheim to volunteer at the Vitamin Angels event Thursday night and to attend the Natural Products Expo West convention. Although it was hard for me to spend a night away from my little Apple (my nickname for Aria, because of her apple-y cheeks that are yummy enough to bite), it is a cause so near and dear to my heart that I could not resist.
Ever since Aria was born, my heart has been swollen with love. Truly, I feel love for everyone and everyt...
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Mother and child in India.
This month Vitamin Angels observes International Women’s Day (March 8th) by recognizing the history of maternal health in the US and by acting on the inequalities facing new mothers in our global community. According to the United Nations, the first International Women’s Day was observed in 1909, a year that also marked the beginning of organized prenatal care in the US. This included the development of intensive prenatal care for women with...
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Vitamin Angels received a letter from one of our in-field partners, Think Humanity, detailing the vitamin distribution that that they worked to implement in Uganda last July. Founder and Executive Director Beth Heckel told us, “The Vitamin A distribution went fine, only differently than we had planned.” Because of a bombing at a World Cup gathering in Uganda, the trip began later than expected.
The group, which consisted of volunteers from the US and Africa, pushed forward, hiring mo...
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posted in operation 2020 | Vitamin Angels | Vitamin A | Notes from the Field
Check out these top three Facebook comments from our latest Caption Contests!
"A smile from the soul defies all that is against it, even gravity!!!" - Danny Diaz
"Your vitamins are giving me a fighting chance!!" - Deborah Jacobs Wagner
"First one to blink doesn't get their vitamins." - Anthony D. Nelson
Go here to read more Vitamin Angels Facebook comments>>
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Kalista Munoz is a student at Madison Meadows Middle School and guest blogger for Vitamin Angels. She says “I was inspired to help Vitamin Angels because my social Studies teacher was talking about community service and encouraged all of her students to become active in the community and help people.”
I was recently given a “pooper scooper” job by my mom’s friend Megan (a thank you is in order here, hmmmm “Thanks Megan, I think???"). This is really n...
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A new Cochrane Review analyzes the effectiveness and safety of using both single supplements (vitamin A, vitamin D, zinc, selenium) and multiple micronutrients to help reduce mortality in children and adults infected with HIV. Based on a previous search in 2004, micronutrient supplementation did not significantly decrease mortality in HIV infected adults, but Vitamin A was found to be beneficial for HIV infected children. The new study incorporates the 2004 findings with 16 additional trial...
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We recently received word from our field partners Reclaim Kids, who have been working with the Liberia Medical Clinic to bring health care and nutrition to children and families of Liberia. Vitamin Angels began an Operation 20/20 project in 2009 with Reclaim Kids and is currently reaching 3,000 children in the country with vitamin A.
The Liberia Medical Clinic reported that in two years, they have lost only two patients out of the 938. The two who passed were children ages 4 and 5 who suffered f...
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posted in operation 2020 | Vitamin Angels | Child health | Notes from the Field
"Laos is an incredible country! I have felt more at ease and safe here than most any of the places I have visited. Beautiful people, inside and out." - Matt Dayka, photographer
Our team is having a great experience in Laos! Go here to read the Notes from the Field with stories about the children we are meeting and a video from one of our trip guests from Sanofi-Aventis.
Together with Give Children a Choice we are providing vitamins to 25,000 children in 570 villages with the cooperatio...
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We were recently inspired by an article written by the World Food Programme titled “The Good News on Malnutrition.” The article lists five reasons to be optimistic about our fight against malnutrition, which include new science, tools, prevention, private sector resources, and acknowledging what is possible. For example, by understanding that reaching a child early in life can prevent irreversible damage, we have been able to develop immediate, cost-effective solutions like micronutr...
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So much good is happening right now in Laos! Go here for an update on our trip and watch a video clip of our field partner Give Children A Choice from inside one of the thirty preschools they built in the region.
Together we are providing vitamins to 25,000 children in 570 villages with the cooperation of the Health Department of Xieng Khouang.
Make sure to check out our trip page to get the latest tweets and photos and to help us build the funds to continue our project in Laos and others like i...
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Meet one of our youngest Angels, Nirvan, who is sharing his good fortune with other children around the world by asking for donations in place of gifts for his first birthday. We were inspired by Nirvan’s personal fundraising page - it shows you can never be too young to help those in need!
Go to Nirvan’s page>>
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We are happy to share new photos from our partner Daystar Adopt A Village in Sierra Leone! With the help of our in-country partners Daystar Adopt A Village, we are currently reaching 6,000 children with vitamin A and 3,728 women with essential micronutrients for pregnant and lactating women in remote villages of Sierra Leone. Last year the Sierra Leone government announced a program giving free medical services to children under 5 and to pregnant and lactating women; however, they did not have t...
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