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Komunidad: Life in Rural Philippines
Children and Families in the Community You do not have to go far out of the urban cities to suddenly see the stark contrast of life in rural Philippines. In many rural Filipino communities, it is subsistence living, growing and rearing what they eat. Each season many Filipinos expectantly wait on whether or not they will have…
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Vitamin Angels Announces $7.5M Pledge to Improve Global Maternal Health and Birth Outcomes By 2022
SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Sept. 25, 2019 — Vitamin Angels, a global public health organization that connects undernourished mothers and children with essential vitamins and minerals, announced its $7.5M commitment to improve global maternal health and birth outcomes by 2022 at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Goalkeepers event in New York City today. This commitment will support a newly launched program called…
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Associated Press: Walgreens and Vitamin Angels Reach 200 Million Women and Children with Vitamins
DEERFIELD, Ill., September 10, 2019 – Walgreens and non-profit Vitamin Angels announced today that they have supported more than 200 million women and children in the U.S. and around the world through their partnership to improve child and maternal health. Approximately one-third of women in the U.S. experience iron deficiency during pregnancy.1 And nearly one-third of women residing in…