Each year more than 10 million children die from preventable illnesses caused by poor nutrition. Half of the children who go blind from Vitamin A deficiency die from opportunistic infections and otherwise non-life threatening illnesses. Healthy Life in partnership with Vitamin Angels is working towards preventing childhood blindness caused by Vitamin A deficiency.

Nutrition Is The Foundation For Health In Children
In Australia, we take for granted access to clean water, fresh abundant food and quality vitamins and supplements. These basic rights are denied many of the world’s population, and conditions which are both preventable and treatable can cause malnutrition, starvation, blindness and death. Nutrition is the foundation for health and development of all children. However, each year more than 10 million children die before their 5th birthday from preventable illnesses caused by nutritional deficiency.

Vitamin Angels Reaches Millions Of Children
To help provide basic nutritional needs to those living in hardship and poverty, Vitamin Angels (a non profit global organisation) has created Operation 2020 with the goal to eradicate Vitamin A deficiency related blindness by the year 2020. Vitamin Angels can help stop a child going blind with just two high dose Vitamin A tablets per year, at a cost of just 25c per child.

Healthy Life and Vitamin Angels believe that everybody has the right to basic nutrition, vitamins and education. By supplementing a child’s diet with Vitamin A, the risk of blindness is significantly reduced. In 2007 Vitamin Angels was able to reach 4.5 million children living with nutritional deficiency in 18 countries. With your help Operation 2020 will reach millions of children who suffer from Vitamin A deficiency.

Every Purchase Of A HL Brand Supplement Can Help Save A Child
You can help Vitamin Angels and Healthy Life prevent childhood blindness. Show your support by purchasing any HL brand vitamin or supplement and we’ll donate 25 cents directly to Vitamin Angels and support their programs around the world.

For more information on Vitamin Angels log on to www.vitaminangels.com or visit your local Healthy Life store.

Healthy Life is proud to have joined Vitamin Angels in their goal of eradicating Vitamin A deficiency blindness and child mortality caused from nutritional deficiency by 2020.