location:

Countrywide

partner:

Project Belize

how:

Community nurse’s aides distribute vitamins to women during routine health care services and regular visits.

location:

Phnom Penh

partner:

Cambodia Ministry of Health, Cambodian Children’s Fund

how:

All children participating in activities at the children’s outreach center run by the Cambodian Children’s Fund in Phnom Penh receive daily multivitamins.

location:

ESU and Limbe

partner:

Cameroon Christian Welfare Medical Foundation

how:

Working in an area that is neglected by the government and other NGOs, CCWMF is delivering multivitamins for pregnant and lactating women in conjunction with an AIDS testing program through AIDSfreeAFRICA. This is the beginning of establishing a health care infrastructure with the goal of ultimately building a hospital to serve the region.

location:

Bateys

partner:

Batey Relief Alliance

how:

Children receive multivitamins and antiparasitcs, through schools with the assistance of teachers and community health workers. Out-of-school children are reached by community health care workers who travel through the region. 2,151 pregnant and lactating women are also given a year’s supply of essential multivitamins.

location:

Shola Market, Kombolcha, Mekelle, Assosa, and Addis Ababa

partner:

African Services Committee, Doctors Giving Back

how:

Children and mothers are reached with multivitamins through HIV testing and care centers set up in urban open-air markets that are at the heart of commercial and social activity in the country. Special focus is on outreach to the underserved. 541 children are also served through this project.

location:

Gaza and West Bank

partner:

MADRE Inc.

how:

Mothers are reached through a community-based model with the assistance of local health care leaders and networks that are knowledgeable of the local context and focused on reaching marginalized populations.

location:

Volta Region, Tema

partner:

Youth Preparation for a Better Future

how:

Mothers and children are reached through a community-based model with the assistance of local health care leaders and networks.

location:

Countrywide

partner:

Faith in Practice, People for Guatemala, Pueblo a Pueblo

how:

Medical professionals are dispatched to remote rural villages throughout Guatemala to provide health care to distribute prenatal multivitamins to pregnant and lactating mothers.

location:

Countrywide

partner:

Circle of Health International, Fonkoze, Haiti Health Initiative, Haitian Development Fund, Haiti Foundation of Hope, Hospital Albert Schweitzer, Hope for Haiti, Love a Child, MADRE Inc, Midwives for Haiti, Partners in Development

how:

Essential nutrients are distributed with maternal and child health care services to pregnant and lactating women throughout Haiti. Children are also reached with daily essential multivitamins through health care clinics, early child development centers, microfinance organizations, and preschools for children under five. 29,985 children are also served through this project.

location:

The municipality of Macuelizo, Roatan

partner:

Cristo Salva and Team Honduras

how:

Out-of-school children are reached by local intermediaries who are supplied by our partners, Cristo Salva. 10,159 pregnant and lactating mothers are reached with essential multivitamins through prenatal care clinics and community outreach.

location:

Countrywide

partner:

Believers Church and Humanitarian Efforts Reaching Out

how:

Essential nutrients are provided through community-level outreach, health care facilities, and mother and infant survival programs.

location:

Western Kenya, Eldoret and outlying rural areas

partner:

AIDVC, Grandmothers Raising Grandchildren, and Moi Hospital

how:

Pregnant and lactating women are reached with essential vitamins through 19 community health centers operated by the Moi University Hospital. 68 children are also reached with essential multivitamins by Grandmothers Raising Grandchildren’s community groups.

location:

Tokmok and Bishkek

partner:

Lamb International

how:

Essential nutrients are provided through community-level outreach, health care facilities, and mother and infant survival programs.

location:

Paynesville

partner:

Reclaim Kids

how:

Pregnant and lactating women are provided micronutrients through locally based medical clinics in rural Liberia.

location:

Tsinjoarivo

partner:

SADABE Madagascar

how:

Pregnant and lactating women and their children are provided micronutrients during visits with local villages to promote forest and wildlife conservation.

location:

Northern Malawi

partner:

CitiHope International

how:

Pregnant and lactating women are provided micronutrients in conjunction with food aid programs in Northern Malawi.

location:

Baglung District, Humla, Kathmandu, Chitwan, Butwal, Chittagong and Chittagong Hills tribal area

partner:

Allow the Children, Bodhi Tree Foundation,and Global Nutrition Empowerment

how:

Bodhi Tree reaches over 700 women in 10 rural, almost inaccessible villages in Humla with little health care available. Allow the Children reaches mothers through a community-based distribution model and Global Nutrition Empowerment has recently launched a distribution program while simultaneously conducting research among rural communities.

location:

Chinandega, Countrywide

partner:

Americas Association for the Care of Children, Amigos for Christ, MADRE Inc, Orphan Network

how:

Remote and rural access areas are targeted for mother and child health services. Women are given prenatal multivitamins. 2,722 children are also supplied with a year’s worth of essential daily multivitamins.

location:

Remote villages near Danja

partner:

Worldwide Fistula Fund

how:

WFF conducts a community based distribution of multivitamins for pregnant and lactating women as part of an obstetric fistula prevention campaign. Women are tracked and cared for over a span of several years.

location:

rural communities in Abia State and Imo State

partner:

Hands and Hearts International, Human Touch International, Team Africa Missions International, and Umu Aro USA

how:

Women and children in rural Abia State receive essential multivitamins from local doctors and professional staff who travel to villages on a regular basis to provide health care. 100 pregnant and lactating women also receive daily multivitamins through the Ohaji Medical Center serving rural areas of Imo State. 3,219 mothers are served by this project.

location:

Mallo Marco, Pasco, Calca, Cusco

partner:

CU Peru, Desea Peru, Operation Aid Latin America, and Salkawaikis

how:

Essential multivitamins are distributed through the local health clinic, serving local rural populations and indigenous populations who travel from high-altitude villages to be treated at Mollo Marco; and to women served at village health clinics throughout Pasco. 592 children are also reached.

location:

Cavite, Laguna, Nueva Ecija, and Aboyog

partner:

Food for the Hungry and Maria and Joseph’s Ministry for the Poor

how:

Children’s multivitamins are distributed through child development programs in 3 provinces of the Philippines.

location:

Waterloo, Lungi, Grafton, and Lumpur village communities

partner:

Daystar Adopt-A-Village

how:

Mothers in seven remote villages are provided with essential prenatal multivitamins, in addition to other medical supplies.

location:

Bududa

partner:

FIMRC

how:

In partnership with the District Ministry of Health, mothers are provided with essential prenatal multivitamins, in addition to other medical supplies. Before this partnership, these women were not receiving appropriate pre and post-natal nutritional supplementation.

location:

Arizona, California, Florida, Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Texasand West Virginia

partner:

Corpus Christi Pregnancy Resource Center. Feeding America Food Banks, Northeast Community Clinics, Serve the People, WIC

how:

New and expecting mothers receive essential nutrients through free clinics, food bank networks and mobile clinics that target low income communities across the US. 3,107 children are also reached with essential multivitamins by this project.

location:

Countrywide

partner:

Medical Teams International, Ministry of Health

how:

Pregnant and lactating mothers are reached by the Department of Maternity and Childhood Protection and the health care system which provides antenatal and postnatal care to women and infants.

location:

Quang Ngai province

partner:

Internourish Inc.

how:

In conjunction with the provincial ministry of health, Internourish is reaching the most vulnerable children in the province. The multivitamins are distributed through local health care centers.