Charity - Vitamins for Children

Do you ever feel reluctant to give to charity because you don't know how effective your small donation can be? Allow me to introduce you to Vitamin Angel. This charity provides nutrition supplements to children in various parts of the globe. From their website:

Why Give Children Vitamin A Supplements?

Vitamin A deficiency also does its worst damage during childhood and is a major contributor to child mortality and illness. The most commonly known effect of vitamin A deficiency is blindness. Less well known is that vitamin A is also essential for functioning of the immune system. Even before blindness occurs, vitamin A-deficient children are at risk of dying from infectious diseases such as measles, diarrhea and malaria. As a result, vitamin A supplementation of vitamin A-deficient populations can reduce child mortality by as much as 23-24%.

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And, $1 - just $1 is enough to provide four years' worth of antiparisitic and vitamin A to a child, when they are most vulnerable to parisites and to blindness. So I encourage you, in this season of giving, make sure to remember those whose lives can be changed for the price of something that's a mere trifle to you or me. And what's more, this charity is rated as a 5-star charity by Charity Navigator, based on the share of its donations - something like 99% - which actually are directed to the cause in question.

Read more, or donate, at VitaminAngels.org