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Michelle Sigmond

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Fundraising Goal:
$400
By This Date:
3-18-12
To Reach This
Many Children:
1,600
Just $.25 provides essential micronutrients to a child for one year.
One high-dose vitamin A capsule can provide one child with sufficient vitamin A for six months. This alone reduces the risk of under-five child mortality by 23%.
One in three children worldwide is undernourished. Vitamin Angels reduces child mortality by connecting infants and children under five with vital nutrients.
Our Operation 20/20 program reaches infants, children, and lactating women in 32 countries on three continents.
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.
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.
Every year, around 54 million new children are affected by malnutrition or undernutrition.
A panel of world-class economists assembled by the Copenhagen Consensus ranked micronutrient supplementation ranked as the #1 global priority.
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.
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.
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