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 Vitamin Angels is pleased to announce the 5th Annual Celebration of Angels. We would be honored to have you join us for this memorable occasion. Our celebration is in honor of the Supplement and Natural Products Industries who have shown all that is possible when companies large and small unite for a common cause: improving the lives of children worldwide. Together we are reaching 20 million children this year. Now that’s a reason to celebrate!
Save the Date
Vitamin Angels 5th Annual Celebration of Angels
Friday October 15, 2010
6:30pm
Harvard Club of Boston
374 Commonwealth Ave.
Boston, MA 02215
Event Sponsors
If you are interested in being a sponsor of our event please contact Jessamyn Wead, jwead@vitaminangels.org |
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Vitamin Angels Domestic Thrive to Five Projects:
 Prenatals Reach Oklahoma Food Bank
Vitamin Angels recently donated 21,000 bottles of pre- and post-natal vitamins to the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma. The donation will be distributed to 10,000 women through a network of more than 450 partner agencies in central and western Oklahoma.
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Multivitamins for Los Angeles Clinics
111 monthly packets of vitamins reached the Northeast Community Clinics of Los Angeles two weeks ago. The donation came from our partners, vitaminID, and a unique Facebook campaign designed to generate donations. Vitamin Angels also contributed 456,480 doses of children’s multivitamins to the clinics of NECC this year- enough to reach 1,250 children in the area.
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Partner Updates from Haiti
Vitamin Angels received several updates from our in country partners in Haiti this month:
 - Haiti Foundation of Hope sent us some wonderful photos of their June distribution trip, part of Thrive to Five.
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- No Time for Poverty reported on the progress of their pediatric clinic and a community outreach program for children from newborn to age five.
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- Love a Child passed along stories from their work in the Ouest region of Haiti doing vitamin A and albendazole distributions. Read more and view the photos >> |
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Help Vitamin Angels continue to reach children and mothers in the hardest to reach
places around the world, and right here in the United States. Make a donation today! |
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To see more of our projects in countries around the world, learn about our partners and how many children we are reaching, check out our programs pages:
Operation 20/20 | Thrive to Five |
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 We would like to pay special thanks to those partners who have been especially generous in the recent months. Each and every supporter is truly valuable and makes our work possible; to see a list of all our donors, check out our Contributors page. |
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 Vitaquest
Vitaquest has been a long time partner of Vitamin Angels, contributing $150,000 this year through financial and product donations in support of our Thrive to Five campaign. This year, Vitaquest has donated 2,755,950 tablets of children’s multivitamins helping us reach thousands of children under of the age of five from the U.S. to Laos, Kenya, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Ethiopia and the Philippines. Vitamin Angels is also proud to have Vitaquest’s Peter Hefele on our Board of Advisors, where he actively works to build fundraising events, set up promotions with major manufacturers and vendors, and develop key introductions to help build Vitamin Angels’ base of support. Vitaquest, your support means so much to Vitamin Angels and the children we serve! |
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 Natural Factors
Natural Factors is a founding member of the consortium (along with DSM and Ocean Nutrition) that has been donating high dose vitamin A capsules to our Operation 20/20 program for the past few years. Natural Factors has generously increased their support as Operation 20/20 continues to grow each year. This year they have donated nearly 9 million capsules of vitamin A which are being distributed by our partners Map International to countries including Cote d’Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Niger, South Sudan, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Haiti, Jamaica, Guatemala! This past year, Natural Factors also provided support through a Buy One Give One retail promotion on their Learning Factors line. Our many thanks for your continued support! |
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Dear Friends,
 Sometimes the news hits close to home. Last week during our operations meeting, Jeff Markel, our Senior VP for Corporate Relations, let us know that the weekend’s headline about 10 aid workers killed in Afghanistan, had a direct connection to Vitamin Angels. Jeff had met Tom Grams, one of the people who had been killed, a couple of years ago during a presentation on poverty around the world. At the end of that meeting, Jeff had introduced himself and spoke with Tom about Vitamin Angels’ work. Tom had been working with a number of international aid groups since 2001, bringing dental health to the children in the most remote villages. This was Tom’s 8th trip to Afghanistan. One of the groups Tom worked with in Myanmar was a recipient Vitamin Angels’ vitamins.
In the article, we also noticed that one of the people, Glen Lapp, was associated with the Mennonite Central Committee in Akron, Pennsylvania. I immediately called, Claude Good from Franconia Mennonite Conference, who has been supplying Vitamin Angels with millions of antiparasitics for years now. I was sad to hear that Glen had been a friend of the family. So tragic.
Poverty, power and politics often conspire to make aid workers easy targets in developing countries. Earlier this year while we were doing distributions in Guatemala, we had to have armed guards patrolling the make shift clinic we had set up to protect the doctors we were working with. You would hope that by doing this work we would be immune to these attacks, yet we know this is often not the case.
In the midst of these potentially dangerous situations, I sometimes question working in these environments. And then a child will come up to me and hold my hand, or look me in the eyes to say 'thank you' and I am reminded once again why we do this work. I hope Tom and Glen were able to experience many of the rewards that make doing this work so worthwhile.
Upwards!
 Howard Schiffer, President |
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The Effect of Infectious Disease on Brain Development
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 several ways". Read More >> |
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In India - Considering Whether Food Should Be A Constitutional Right
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. Read More >> |
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Lowell Summer Music Series
 Join Vitamin Angels as we raise awareness and enjoy some summer fun at the Lowell Summer Music Series, featuring the B-52’s on August 20th!
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Summit of the Angels at the NBJ Summit
 The 2nd Annual Vitamin Angels Summit of the Angels took place July 20th at the NBJ Summit. Vitamin Angels was proud to honor The Vitamin Shoppe, UNFI and Vitamin World with Archangel Awards for their long-term commitment to reducing child mortality worldwide and improving the lives of children with essential nutrients.
Thank you again to the Nutrition Business Journal, Proprietary Nutritionals, Polyphenolics, the St. Regis, and Truth on Earth.
Check out Truth on Earth's song written for Vitamin Angels,
Madness in My World >>
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Special Thank You
 We would like to extend a special thanks to NSF for providing technical expertise to our Programs Division. We are very grateful for NSF’s recent contributions to strengthening our Technical Manufacturing Specifications for our Vitamin A products. Vitamin Angels appreciates your dedication to helping us achieve our shared goal of reaching children in need with essential nutrients.
If you or your company are interested in donating services to Vitamin Angels, contact us today. |
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JP Morgan Good Venture Project
The Santa Barbara International Marathon (11/6) and P.F Chang’s Rock 'n' Roll Arizona Marathon (1/16/11) may seem a long ways off, but now is the time to start training! Keep in mind that the Santa Barbara Intl Marathon offers team entries, and the PF Chang Marathon is also offered as a 1/2 marathon.
Join some of Vitamin Angels own staff members in pounding the pavement and fundraising for Vitamin Angels. Team Vitamin Angels offers a supportive and fun environment to reach your goals and cross the finish line to help children thrive worldwide!
