Vitamin Angels
Vitamin Angels is committed to eradicating childhood blindness due to Vitamin A Deficiency (VAD) on the planet by the year 2020. Operation 20/20 is the first major step in this global campaign, which launched in 2007 18 countries.
In its first year Operation 20/20 will reach 4.5 million children to prevent VAD childhood blindness. In addition to the vitamin A, all the children will receive de-worming medicine to improve the absorption of the vitamin A and help combat intestinal parasites.
Vitamin A is critical for vision, bone growth and normal bodily development, and…
