Katherine Hanzel
Saratoga Springs, Utah
Hi! I am Katherine and I stumbled onto Vitamin Angels when I was researching for a project on Vitamin A. I found their Progam "Operation 20/20" and think it is fantastic! There are so many undernourished kids and I think this is a great way to get involved and do something about it!
 

Have A Heart

Sun, 21/02/2010 - 6:04pm — katherinehanzel

I am competing in a competition for an organization called FCCLA. For this competition, I am giving a presentation on Vitamin A. To give myself more of a platform for my project, and to make it more meaningful, I wanted to find an organization that dealt with Vitamin A on a personal level. I searched for weeks and finally found Vitamin Angels' "Operation 20/20"! It was exactly what I had been looking for. I was even more excited when I found out that this website allowed you to come up with a personal fundraiser. To personalize my project for FCCLA, I am holding a fundraiser through the National Honors Society at my high school, Westlake High in Saratoga Springs UT, to raise money to benifit "Operation 20/20" and kids suffering from a Vitamin A defficiency. Our fundraiser will be called "Have A Heart" and will begin Monday, Feb. 22 and end Sunday, Feb. 28. Students will be able to purchase a paper heart for $1 and put their name on it to go on a designated wall in our commons area. Our goal is to raise $300 (in other words, sell 300 hearts). We are so excited about Vitamin Angels and hope to make a difference!

Comments

Post new comment

The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.
CAPTCHA
This question is for testing whether you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.
Image CAPTCHA
Enter the characters shown in the image.
Fundraising Goal:
$300
By This Date:
3-20-10
To Reach This
Many Children:
1,200
Together with health advocates worldwide, distribution of vitamin A has helped reduce the number of child deaths to less than 10 million annually for the first time on record.
Every year, around 54 million new children are affected by malnutrition or undernutrition.
Just $.25 provides essential micronutrients to a child for one year.
Research indicates that each dollar spent on supplementation creates benefits worth more than 17 dollars. Better health, fewer deaths and increased future earnings add up to benefits of more than $1 billion yearly.
It only takes 25 cents to provide a child with vitamin A and antiparasitics for a year. With one dollar, we can provide a child with vitamin A during the four most vulnerable years of their life.
One in three children worldwide is undernourished. Vitamin Angels reduces child mortality by connecting infants and children under five with vital nutrients.
Nutrient-rich foods are often expensive or difficult to obtain in developing countries. Multivitamins provide daily recommended amounts of key vitamins and minerals important for a range of functions essential to good health.
An estimated 190 million children under five suffer from vitamin A deficiency (VAD) worldwide.
Vitamin Angels' Thrive to Five program provides multivitamins for children and pregnant and lactating women in the U.S. and abroad.
Vitamin A is essential to immune function, especially in children under five who are most vulnerable to common infections and diseases.

Essential nutrients, healthy children.

One in three children worldwide is undernourished. Vitamin Angels reduces child mortality by connecting infants and children under five with vital nutrients.

$.25

Just $.25 provides essential micronutrients to a child for one year.
australian flag
© Vitamin Angels, a 501c3 organization.