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 This year’s Celebration of Angels will be a party like no other and everyone at Expo East is invited! At our festival-style event, attendees can try their luck on a 30-ft. rock climbing wall to help us "reach the unreachable," get an airbrush Vitamin Angels tattoo to show their support and save lives, and get their picture taken with Austin Powers or "Bono." A special performance by one of the most sought after Journey tribute bands, "Captured," will top off the evening at the Boston Convention Center, Grand Ballroom. The event is free to everyone, so come help Vitamin Angels celebrate 15 years and reach 15 million children, Friday, September 25, 2009 from 6:00-9:00 p.m.
Vitamin Angels is looking for 100 volunteers to help us during the event! If you are interested in supporting us by helping direct and encourage others to get involved,contact us! |
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 Many of the Vitamin Angels staff will be at Expo East this year! Stop by booth #276 in Hall A and say Hello!
You can also swing by the ZICO booth( #2769) to watch ZICO Run for the Angels! ! Ultra athlete and ZICO investor Jesse Itzler will be running at 4pm 9/24 and ZICO Founder/CEO Mark Rampolla will be running at 4pm 9/25. All monies raised will go to Vitamin Angels. Donate to: ZICO Run for the Angels and enter "ZICO Run for the Angels" in the IN HONOR OF box, and send an Acknowledgment to: maile@zico.com. Donors will be visibly acknowledged in the ZICO booth and those who stop by the ZICO booth during the ZICO Run for the Angels! will receive a free ZICO t-shirt! |
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Ode and Vitamin Angels invite you to Join the Intelligent Optimists!
Request your free isue today!
 Ode and Vitamin Angels have recently partnered to bring you good news and good health! Ode showcased the work of Vitamin Angels in a recent article in the September/October issue and will continue to support the Vitamin Angels cause over the coming months - stay tuned for updates!
 Ode is filled with informative and interesting articles about the people, places and possibilities changing our world for the better…one good idea at a time. Each issue of Ode brings you good news and teaches you how to live a happier, healthier and more inspired, joy-filled life.
Ode is pleased to offer a free issue to the Vitamin Angels community of supporters. Visit Ode today at www.odemagazine.com/angel and request your free issue! |
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Multivitamins for Cambodian School
 Crown Relocations, long time supporter of Vitamin Angels, recently opened a new facility in Phnom Penh. Once the facility was operational, Jim Thompson, Crown Worldwide chairman, and his wife Sally, quickly realized the desperate need for a school in the neighboring village Proa Chum. Determined to help create a safe and secure place where the students could better their chances for the future through education, the school was built in just four month. In an effort to facilitate even greater opportunities for the physical and cognitive development of the children, the Proa Chum School recently began distributing over 400,000 children’s multivitamins provided by Vitamin Angels. |
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Vitamin Angels in Uzbekistan
Vitamin Angels is pleased to be partnering with Medical Teams International and the Ministry of Health in Uzbekistan. Recently we provided 100,000 doses of 100,000 IU vitamin A to the project to reach children 12-59 months old, which will complement their existing nationwide supplementation program. All of the children up to one year old will see a general practitioner once a month for a checkup and so that they can be sure to receive the dose of vitamin A so critical to their development. |
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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 projects pages:
Learn more about our projects in 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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LifeVantage Corporation
 Vitamin Angels is happy to welcome LifeVantage Corporation as a new in kind donor! Starting off our partnership with a bang, LifeVantage recently donated nearly 240,000 multivitamins with minerals to us for distribution to those in need of supplementation around the world. Vitamin Angels has begun distributing the multivitamins through our partners, Feed the Hungry. Thank you LifeVantage, we look forward to a lasting partnership with you! |
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Natural Alternatives International
 Providing in-kind donations of children’s multivitamins for several years now, NAI has been a committed supporter of Vitamin Angels mission to reach the children most in need with essential nutrients. We recently received a donation of over 1.4 million tablets of children’s chewable multivitamins, in addition to an earlier shipment this year! NAI’s generous contributions have allowed us to reach children from right here in the United States across the world to Laos and Nigeria, through our Thrive to Five program. Thank you, we very much appreciate your partnership NAI! |
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Vitaquest
 Vitaquest, together with Garden State Nutritionals, are loyal partners of Vitamin Angels. This year Vitaquest has supplied over 3.5 million tablets of children’s multivitamins, in addition to generous cash donations, which are allowing us to continue to expand our Thrive to Five program and focus on reaching children during their most critical, developmental years with supplementation. Through our partnership with Vitaquest, Vitamin Angels is supplying the Proa Chum School in Cambodia (learn more in the 'In the Field' section of this newsletter), with multivitamins as well as thousands of children in Laos. Our gratitude and thanks to Vitaquest for their vital partnership! |
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| Looking for ways to get involved? Our new website makes it easier than ever to make a difference and be part of the solution! Check out our Get Involved section for ideas. |
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Text to Give
 Through Friday 9/18, you can donate $5 to Vitamin Angels simply by sending a text message from your cell phone! The donation will be added to your phone bill and will help us reach 20 children with vital nutrients!
Text the word GIVE (G-I-V-E)
To the number 20222
Please make sure to reply 'Yes' when prompted to verify the donation.
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World Sight Day!
 Mark your calendar, October 8th is World Sight Day.
World Sight Day (WSD) is an annual day of awareness held every October to increase public attention on blindness and vision impairement. Coordinated by WHO and IAPB under the VISION 2020 Global Initiative, members work together to raise awareness, influence government participation in national blindeness prevention programmes, and educate target audiences about blindness prevention. Learn more about World Sight Day.
Vitamin Angels Operation 20/20 aims to eliminate childhood blindness caused by vitamin A deficiency and reducing child mortality worldwide.
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JP Morgan and Vitamin Angels
competition. Vitamin Angels easily made it to the second round of presentations and out of 9 groups took 4th place receiving a $500 grant. Group member Jenny Cheng describes in what prompted the group to choose Vitamin Angels:
 "We chose Vitamin Angels because unlike other organizations, you did not seek to reinvent the wheel - by connecting high dose capsules of vitamin A (and anti-parasitic medication) to the existing distribution arms of NGOs, you avoided redundant overhead costs. This strategy demonstrated your sense of innovation, emphasis on efficiency, and focus on helping eradicate Vitamin A Deficiency in numerous developing countries throughout the world. We were very inspired and appreciative to have had the opportunity to introduce your cause to the J.P. Morgan community."
Our many thanks to Anthony Eigier, Jenny Cheng and the other members of this fantastic group! |
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 Vitamin Shoppe’s first Annual Volley for Vitamin Angels Tournament
Vitamin Shoppe store in Lynchburg, Virginia has come up with their own creative way to raise money for Vitamin Angels, get into shape and have some fun; the first ever Volley for Vitamin Angels Tournament. Competitive and recreational groups will come together next month to compete for products donated by local vendors. Ready to play? For more information visit www.volley4vitaminangels.info. |
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| Have a great story to share? We would love to hear from you! Send Brittany an email and let us know what you are doing to support Vitamin Angels! |
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Dear Friends,
Four years ago when we were planning our first Celebration of Angels event, I thought that if we could just raise $250,000 which would represent a one year operating budget, then we would be set. At the first planning meeting, I remember Anthony Zolezzi (now on our Board of Directors) saying 'That’s not enough!' In that instant, I knew we had to raise over $1 million dollars, so we could reach 4.5 million children. We succeeded, last year went on to reach 7.5 million children last year. This year we will connect essential nutrients with 10 million children. Our commitment for 2010 is to reach over 15 million children!
During my talks, I always say that we are doing this for only one reason; because we can! If we don’t reach these children who will? Vitamin Angels has been focusing on building our internal capacity, we are now in a position to far exceed our current goal - with the right support we now talk about the day when we will exceed reaching 100 million children!
All of this is reason to celebrate which is why you are invited to join us in Boston for our annual Celebration of Angels event. We promise you an evening and an event unlike anything you have been to before.
The heart of our event is just that; this industry has a heart, we are hundreds of companies, manufacturers, executives, and supporters coming together to say these children are worth it; they deserve a chance at a healthy life. I always tell people that I have the best job in the world. I get to relate to everyone at a heart level; the companies who support us, the implementation partners who help us deliver the vitamins to the children, and of course the children and their parents who know we are there so their children can lead a full and healthy life. When we reach a village there is often a celebration -literally, with everyone singing and dancing and letting us know how glad they are that we showed up, that someone cares enough to reach these children.
This year, on September 7th, I celebrated my 60th birthday! I’m still not sure how this happened. I only know that I am having a great time and how thankful I am to get to work with so many wonderful people! Many reasons to celebrate!
Upward,
 Howard Schiffer, President
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 We are excited to have the following manufacturers signed up for Unconventional Angels Coupon Promotion this October. In addition, we’re pleased to have the support of over 900 natural products retailers. This is truly an industry-wide event that will impact the lives of millions of children the October! Look for the coupon book, with over $40 in savings, in natural product stores nationwide, next month!
For more information, please visit:
http://www.vitaminangels.org/unconventional-angels
Look for us in the following publications:
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World Health Statistics 2009
Every year the World Health Organization produces a report on the health of world population. The report is a compilation of data and statistics collected from its 193 member states. WHO has just released the report for this year - the World Health Statistics 2009. A look at the report statistics indicates that while there have been improvements in child and maternal health in some regions, much more work is needed in order to reach the Millennium Development Goals by the year 2015 (the date the goals were set to be accomplished).
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Fixing Global Nutrition Institutions
Last month, the Center for Global Development released a paper entitled "Global Nutrition Institutions: Is there an Appetite for Change." The paper was written by Danielle Kuczynski and Ruth Levin, an internationally recognized expert on global health and health policy.
Levin and Kuczynski’s paper identifies what they believe to be the major institutional weaknesses in global nutrition and offers their recommendations for addressing the problems. Many of the issues they identify lie within the present structure of the global nutrition community. They define the structure as an "ecosystem" - "a loose collection of entities that are focused largely on their survival without an overriding logic or plan behind the division of responsibilities among them." As such, global nutrition institutions often compete, overlap, or leave gaps.
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Power to the Peaceful
Saturday, September 12th, Vitamin Angels staff joined the crowd of approximately 65,000 exuberant fans for the 11th Annual Power to the Peaceful festival in Golden Gate Park. The day started with an early morning lightening storm and remained foggy all day, but even the classic SF weather turned out to be a wonderful component of an exciting day. The poor weather delayed Howard’s flight causing him to go on stage late, and as it happened just after the Dalai Lama’s representative Namkha Rinpoche, and before Alanis Morissette. The crowd was in full revelry by the time Howard took the stage sharing our mission and calling for the audience to act. Amongst cheers, Howard asked everyone to take out their phones and text to give a $5 donation to Vitamin Angels and help us reach an additional 20 children. Cell phones were out all day, and a great number of people, including Michael Franti himself!, stopped by the booth to learn more and share their enthusiasm for our work.
Sunday afternoon, Howard took to the stage again; this time as part of the Global Action Forum put on in partnership with CARE. The diverse panel, moderated by Jurriaan Kamp Editor-in-Chief of Ode Magazine discussed the subject of: Fighting Global Hunger: Modernizing Our Approach to Food Security.
Our gratitude to Michael Franti, his management, CARE and everyone who made our participation in PTTP possible! Thanks also to Linda Sparrow for her cheerful assistance throughout the day, and the many amazing photos!!
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