Vitamin Angel Alliance Issues Call to ‘Be an Angel - Save a Life’
Vitamin Angel Alliance, a non-profit humanitarian aid organization based in Santa Barbara, California, recently launched the introduction of their ‘Be an Angel. Save a Life’ counter cards into the retail marketplace. The cards designed to help raise money for Vitamin Angel’s mission to ‘provide basic nutrition to people in need’ will have an immediate impact on vitamin deficiency diseases around the world.
Santa Barbara, CA (PRWEB) June 6, 2005 -- Vitamin Angel Alliance, a
non-profit humanitarian aid organization based in Santa Barbara, California,
recently launched the introduction of their ‘Be an Angel. Save a Life’ counter
cards into the retail marketplace. The cards designed to help raise money for
Vitamin Angel’s mission to ‘provide basic nutrition to people in need’ will have
an immediate impact on vitamin deficiency diseases around the world.
Howard B. Schiffer, the President of Vitamin Angel Alliance said; ‘After
Vitamin Angels took on the nutritional component of the tsunami relief effort
(and ended up sending over 10 million supplements to survivors in Sri Lanka,
India and Indonesia) we received calls from retailers across the country only
asking us what they could do to help.’ The ‘Be an Angel. Save a Life’ counter
cards were designed as an easy way for retailers and consumers to have an
immediate impact on the ravages of chronic malnutrition around the
world.
Barry Perzow, President and CEO of Pharmaca Integrative Pharmacy
said, "Health can be determined by the well-being of an individual, community or
the world. While we have control of our individual health, and influence on our
community's health, supporting the Vitamin Angel Alliance contributes to world
health."
“Lack of basic nutrition causes more deaths each year than
heart disease, cancer and AIDS,” Schiffer stated. “Most of these deaths are
preventable, and we have the cure. It seems almost inconceivable, but a dollar’s
worth of vitamins can actually save someone’s life.”
Last year World
Health Organization (WHO) issued a report stating that the single most important
action we could take to positively impact the lives of impoverished peoples
around the world is to provide multiple vitamin supplementation. Here’s how
Vitamin Angels is helping to meet those needs.
In India, Vitamin Angels
has spearheaded a campaign to provide megadoses of Vitamin A that will help
prevent childhood blindness in 250,000 children. In Tibet, together with The
Terma Foundation they distribute 650,000 children's chewables every month. In
Bali, Vitamin Angels is at the forefront of a large scale project to end the
widespread suffering and death caused by hemorrhaging during childbirth. In the
Pacific Region they are partnering with UNICEF to distribute anti-parasitics and
Vitamin A to 750,000 children in Myanmar, Laos and the Philippines. In total
last year, Vitamin Angels distributed 23.4 million supplements in 40 countries,
providing life saving vitamins and nutrients to countless millions who suffer
from hunger, malnutrition and life-threatening vitamin
deficiencies.
Vitamin Angel Alliance is a non-profit, non-sectarian
organization dedicated to providing basic nutrition and fighting vitamin A
deficiency blindness around the world since 1994. Additional information on the
Alliance may be found at www.vitaminangel.org.
Stores interested in
participating in the ‘Be an Angel. Save a Life’ campaign, should contact Shauna
Kane, call: 805 565 9919.
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Source : http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/6/prweb247893.htm