Vitamin Angels Addresses Haiti Disaster

SANTA BARBARA, Calif.Vitamin Angels responded to an urgent request from its in-country partner, Hope for Haiti, by shipping over 1 million childrens multivitamins to assist in disaster relief. After the present crisis is addressed, Vitamin Angels plans to focus efforts on long-term strategies for alleviating micronutrient deficiencies.

Having been in Haiti just a few months ago, and knowing the poor condition of the infrastructure before the earthquake, weve been immediately concerned about our in-country partners, how the children we are currently working with are doing and how the recent disaster will impact our long-term plans for Haiti, noted Howard B. Schiffer, president of Vitamin Angels. With news of the disaster in Haiti, Vitamin Angels is working to assess how our partner organizations have been impacted. Hope for Haiti is already funneling relief supplies into Port-au-Prince, and we just learned that the Sister of Charity baby hospital I visited in October is relatively undamaged.

Vitamin Angels policy is to continue to direct the donations from its U.S. partners to the immediate Haitian relief campaign while welcoming support for Vitamin Angels long-term rebuilding effort and to help replenish recently depleted inventories of childrens multiple vitamins.