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The Vitamin Angel Alliance, Santa Barbara, CA, a nonprofit organization that provides health education and nutritional supplements to medically underserved communities around the world, has donated calcium and vitamin D supplements aimed at preventing rickets in Tibet’s at-risk children. The organization will make a monthly donation of 147,500 supplements. In a cooperative venture, Pharmachem Laboratories, Kearny, N.J., will donate the supplement ingredients, Tishcon Corp., Westbury, N.Y., will donate its tableting and bottling services and the staff of the Terma Foundation, a nonprofit humanitarian organization based in Half Moon Bay, CA, that focuses on health crises affecting Tibetans, will deliver and distribute the supplements.