Vitamin Angels is in Western Kenya for a two week observational tour of their prenatal program.  Robert Orr, Chairman of Ocean Nutrition is on site with Vitamin Angels’ Founder and President Howard Schiffer, and others including Vitamin Angels’ Development Coordinator Jessamyn Wead, and CEO of Twin Labs, Tom Tollworthy and VP Marketing, Kate Pastor.

Vitamin Angels tackles preventable health issues, such as childhood blindness, through supplementation of vitamin A. The Vitamin Angels organization aims to eliminate vitamin A deficiency through the systematic distribution of this essential nutrient to at-risk children. An estimated 190 million children under five worldwide are vitamin A deficient. Supplementation with vitamin A alone reduces infant and child mortality, combined, dramatically - by approximately 23%. Just $.25 provides funding to preserve the sight of a child and has the potential of preventing other life-threatening diseases.

Kenya is estimated to have the third largest under-five population living with Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) in Africa, after Niger and Ethiopia. Last year, Vitamin Angels reached over 32,000 mothers and distributed 11,882,250 prenatal vitamins in Western Kenya!

Ocean Nutrition is honored to take part in this observational tour in Kenya, and to be a supporter of Vitamin Angels.

For more information on Vitamin Angels and their activity in Kenya visit http://www.vitaminangels.org/trip-kenya