12.01.06
Celebration of Angels Event Raises $1.5 Million
Vitamin Angels, Santa Barbara, CA, raised $1.5 million in cash and product donations at its Celebration of Angels event held on October 5, 2006, in conjunction with the Natural Products Expo East show in Baltimore, MD. A major portion of the donations received will be used to support the first three years of the organization’s Operation 20/20 program, a global initiative to eradicate childhood blindness resulting from vitamin A deficiency worldwide by the year 2020. Vitamin Angels now has 50% of the funding needed to meet its 2007 goal of providing 4.5 million children in 26 countries worldwide with essential vitamin A supplements.
Vitamin Angels, Santa Barbara, CA, raised $1.5 million in cash and product donations at its Celebration of Angels event held on October 5, 2006, in conjunction with the Natural Products Expo East show in Baltimore, MD. A major portion of the donations received will be used to support the first three years of the organization’s Operation 20/20 program, a global initiative to eradicate childhood blindness resulting from vitamin A deficiency worldwide by the year 2020. Vitamin Angels now has 50% of the funding needed to meet its 2007 goal of providing 4.5 million children in 26 countries worldwide with essential vitamin A supplements.