Vitamin Angels

Vitamin Angels is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing vital nutrition in the form of supplements, to developing countries, communities and individuals in need. Vitamin Angels has set its sights on the issue of childhood blindness, with plans to eliminate childhood blindness by the year 2020 through the systematic distribution of vitamin A to at-risk children. Just $1 provides sufficient funding to preserve the sight of one child. In addition, Vitamin Angels sponsors programs to supply multivitamins to at-risk children and vital supplements to expecting mothers. Vitamin Angels programs and initiatives are funded through the support of generous monetary and in-kind donations from companies and individuals seeking to making a difference.

Vitamin A is critical for vision, bone growth and normal bodily development, and plays an active role in supporting a child’s immune system. Today, half of the children who go blind from Vitamin A Deficiency die each year from opportunistic infections and otherwise non-life-threatening illnesses. Vitamin Angels’ global initiative will focus specifically on providing basic vitamin A nutritional supplements to the tens of millions of children, living in extreme poverty, that are at risk of going blind or dying due to Vitamin A deficiency.

Vitamin Angels programs and initiatives are funded through the support of generous monetary and in-kind donations from companies and individuals seeking to making a difference. Your donation, of any amount large or small, will go a long way towards improving the health of our recipients. We guarantee that it will go right into one of our programs: Operation 20/20, Maternal Health, Children’s Nutrition Programs or Disaster Relief, where it is most needed.

The cost to prevent a single child from going blind due to Vitamin A deficiency for one year is .25 cents. Over the course of four years, when children are most vulnerable, our total expense is $1. This covers the cost of two high dose vitamin A and anti-parasitic supplements given each year to a child from the ages of 2 to 5. Last year Vitamin Angels donated more than 100 million supplements to people in need in 40 countries.

Official Vitamin Angels Website

I wanted to let everyone know that I have been working to roll out a user registration system. For now, it will be used to essentially control the chat boards. You will need to be registered to post a message. You will not need to be registered to vote. In addition, registered users can add other users to an ‘Ignore List’. This will make it so that the posts of offensive users will no longer show up to you. This system will make it easier to moderate and control going forward.

I hope this will fix many of the problems going forward. If you have any feedback, let me know!