Vitamin Angel Alliance Issues Call For Massive Children's Vitamin Donation To Help Victims Of Southeast Asian Earthquake and Tsunamis
Vitamin Angel Alliance has issued a call for massive children's vitamin donations to help victims of the recent Southeast Asian Earthquake and Tsunamis. To help stave off starvation, and lessen the likelihood of epidemics and disease, Vitamin Angels is working with a consortium of companies in the natural products and pharmaceutical industries to help bring in emergency nutritional supplies to this region.
Santa Barbara, CA (PRWEB) December 29, 2004 -- Vitamin Angel Alliance has
issued a call for massive children's vitamin donations to help victims of the
recent Southeast Asian Earthquake and Tsunamis. To help stave off starvation,
and lessen the likelihood of epidemics and disease, Vitamin Angels is working
with a consortium of companies in the natural products and pharmaceutical
industries to help bring in emergency nutritional supplies to this
region.
Vitamin Angels in partnership with their sister organization,
Direct Relief International and other relief colleagues is working to
consolidate vitamin shipments that will begin being flown in along with medical
supplies as early as this week.
"We're now talking with medical
personnel who are asking for liquid children’s multiple vitamins and children's
chewable multis, to help the children who were affected by this disaster." said
Howard B. Schiffer, Vitamin Angel Alliance President. "Vitamin Angels knows what
an impact basic nutrition can have and in a disaster relief situation, the
importance is even more profound. This morning we learned that Fed Ex has
offered to donate a plane and logistics to Direct Relief, so transportation is
not an issue. We just have to gather the vitamin supplements and prepare them
for shipment."
Vitamin Angel Alliance is a non-profit, non-sectarian
organization dedicated to providing basic nutrition and fighting vitamin A
deficiency childhood blindness around the world since 1994. Last year Vitamin
Angels donated 16.2 million supplements to people in need in 45 countries around
the world.
"We never get to choose when a natural disaster will strike"
said Schiffer, "But we always get to choose how we will respond."
For
more information go to: www.vitaminangel.org
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Source : http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/12/prweb192502.htm