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News from the field

 

 

In this section, we want to invite you to send us the newsletter from your organization for publication on our website. 

 

 

News from our partners:

 

Micronutrient Initiative

The Micronutrient Initiative is an international non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring that the world's most vulnerable - especially women and children - in developing countries get the vitamins and minerals they need to survive and thrive. MI has had an active year, touching the lives of almost 500 million people through their supplementation and fortifications programs.  

 

The Micronutrient Initiative's 2008-2009 Annual Report

 

see also www.micronutrient.org  

 

 

 

 

Ivory Park Community Centre, South Africa

Ivory Park is a place found in the east of Johannesburg, South Africa, in the Gauteng province. Ivory Park is occupied by morethan 20 000 black and coloured people and is close to the large township Tembisa. Ivory Park has improved since the early 1990s, it has 5 clinics, 8 schools, 1 police station, 2 libralies and it covers the popular community radio station called vot.

 

Ivory Park Community Centre Newsletter Dec 2009

 

 

 

 

 

News from SIGHT AND LIFE:

 

Visiting Bangladesh, July 2008

 

Klaus Kraemer visited Bangladesh from July 14-23, 2008 to check the progress of a number of micronutrient supplementation projects.
Please read below for a report on the projects as well as his personal impressions of the country. 

 

open pdf Visiting Bangladesh July 2008

 

Please find below the documents to which we refer in the above report:
open pdf
The JiVitA Bangladesh Project: Research to improve nutrition and health among mothers and infants in rural South Asia, SIGHT AND LIFE Newsletter 1/2006
open pdf Newborn Vitamin A Dosing and Early Infant Survival, SIGHT AND LIFE Magazine 2/2008
open pdf The Role of Folate in Mediating the Metabolism and Toxicity of Arsenic, SIGHT AND LIFE Magazine 1/2008

 

During the visit of Klaus Kraemer, two articles were published in local newspapers discussing the supplementation with Vitamin A:
open pdf Vitamin A at birth to save 20'000 infants per year, Newspaper Dhaka July 24, 2008
open pdf One dose of vitamin A can save 20'000 infants per year, The Daily Star July 27, 2008

 

 
 
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Annual Report 2009
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