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Building Health and Trust from Within: A Community-Centered Approach in Punjab
Vitamin Angels works to save lives and improve the health of nutritionally vulnerable women and children through proven nutrition solutions. To do that, we partner with trusted, community-rooted organizations like Developing Indigenous Resources (DIR), amplifying local leadership and extending life-saving nutrition interventions to those who need them most. Headquartered in Mohali, Punjab, in northwestern India,…
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Transforming the Birth Experience in the Philippines with Quality Maternity Care and Free Birth Centers
Maternal and infant survival rates at Mercy in Action birth centers are four times higher than the national average. For more than a decade, Vitamin Angels has partnered with Mercy in Action, a Philippines-based nonprofit that has been sponsoring free birth centers and facilitating the delivery of quality maternity care since 1991. Together, we work…
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A Wave of Need: A Midwife’s Story
The 2013 storm marked one of the deadliest typhoons to strike the Visayas island group in the central Philippines, claiming over 6,300 lives. At landfall, Haiyan (Yolanda) had maximum sustained winds of 195 mph, making it one of the most powerful tropical cyclones to strike land.¹ The physical destruction and economic impact pushed an estimated…