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Vitamin Angel Alliance Calls for Nutritional Aid for Guatemalan Flood Victims
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Vitamin Angel Alliance Calls for Nutritional Aid for Guatemalan Flood Victims

In response to the massive flooding from Hurricane Stan that has left 120,000 Guatemalans homeless and living in shelters, Vitamin Angel Alliance has issued a call for nutritional supplements and products to help victims avert a food crisis in the region. Vitamin Angel is working with a consortium of companies in the natural products and pharmaceutical industries to provide the nutritional component of the relief effort.

Vitamin Angels in partnership with their sister organization, Direct Relief International and other relief colleagues is working to consolidate nutritional supplement shipments that will begin being flown in along with medical supplies as early as next week.

“We’re now talking with relief personnel who are asking for children’s multiple vitamins, adult multiples and nutrition bars.” said Howard B. Schiffer, Vitamin Angel Alliance President, “The fear is that the worst is yet to come with sanitation and water supplies broken down, epidemics are a key concern. Basic nutrition can play a vital role in keeping these people healthy during the recovery period.”

Vitamin Angel Alliance is a non-profit, non-sectarian organization dedicated to providing basic nutrition and fighting vitamin A deficiency childhood blindness and other vitamin deficiency diseases around the world since 1994. Last year Vitamin Angels donated 23.4 million supplements to people in need in 40 countries around the world.

“Disease is a big worry,” said Ken Herfst, a Canadian helping with the relief effort, “It’s the kids we are worried about, they go down so fast.”
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