I've worked with Vitamin Angels in a professional setting, and all I can say is the global reach and impact this team is making towards ending malnutrition is unbelievable. With a devoted team, global consultants, field partners around the world, corporate partners, and a highly-efficient process, Vitamin Angels is able to reach over 61 million women and children EACH YEAR with lifesaving vitamins and nutrition education.
Before I started working with Vitamin Angels, I was unfamiliar with the role of vitamin A, deworming, and prenatals. Now I want to share that this organization has identified one of the most cost-effective and efficient ways to combat global malnutrition, to reduce blindness, disease, and death.
Not only that, but their Founder is highly involved in the programs, frequently visiting the field, and everyone on the team is friendly, easy to work with, and passionate about what they do.
Keep up the great work you are doing to help save babies, children, mothers, and end the cycle of poverty around the world!
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Eye Diseases, Blindness & Vision Impairments, Food, Health, Human Services, Nutrition, Public Health, Victims Services
Mission: Vitamin Angels provides lifesaving vitamins to mothers and children under five at risk of malnutrition — reducing preventable illness, blindness, and death — to create a healthier world.
Target demographics: Pregnant mothers, children 6 to 59 months of ago who are at risk for Vitamin A deficiency
Direct beneficiaries per year: 61 million mothers and children
Geographic areas served: Globally
Programs: The organization's program services, aimed to alleviate under-nutrition using evidence-based approaches, consist of providing: i) essential micronutrients (vitamin a and various formulations of multivitamins) ii) anti-parasitic agents (albendazole) iii) informational materials and instruction for health care providers on breast-feeding and good complementary feeding practices iv) technical assistance to support deployment of products/services consistent with accepted best practices. We provide our products/services and technical assistance to qualified field partners (primarily non-governmental organizations (ngos), and a limited number of national health services) operating in the united states and selected developing countries designated by world health organization (w. H. O. ) as experiencing i)moderate to severe micronutrient deficiency ii) moderate to severe endemicity with intestinal worms. Field partners deploy micronutrients to communities and individuals at-risk and eligible for universal supplementation (for vitamin a and multivitamins) or mass drug administration (for albendazole) as defined by WHO. Our primary focus is to support universal vitamin a supplementation programs for children ages 6 to 59 months of age residing outside the united states for the purpose of reducing childhood mortality and morbidity. Concurrent with our support of universal vitamin a distribution, we support co-administration with albendazole among eligible children 12 to 59 months of age for the purpose of improving vitamin a status, improving general micronutrient uptake, and decreasing the burden of intestinal worms. An important, secondary focus of our organization is to support universal multi-micronutrient supplementation programs for pregnant/lactating women to improve birth outcomes. Vitamin angels promotes breastfeeding and good complimentary feeding practices among mothers as a generally accepted approach to ensuring good nutrition of infants. Another initiative of vitamin angels is small-scale support of universal multi-micronutrient supplementation programs for infants and young children 6 to 59 months of age to advance their cognitive and physical growth.