1000’s of Khoun District, Xieng Khouang expecting/lactating mothers and preschool aged children are receiving one year of daily multiple vtamins thanks to the long time Give Children A Choice/Vitamin Angels partnership. The vitamins help malnourished preschoolers to eat more, be
Improving the health of the children!
Improving the health of the children! Our vitamin distribution continues. In late May we received a shipment of multivitamins for children and pregnant/lactating mothers. The distribution began immediately after the vitamins arrived in Xieng Khouang Province. We received the following
A Vitamin A Day! Boosting Children’s Health
Give Children A Choice is currently distributing over 16,000 bottles of multivitamins for children and pregnant/lactating mothers in Xieng Khouang Province. The majority of those being distributed in Khoun and Kham Districts where the need is the greatest. This is
Vitamins Have Arrived!
The vitamins have finally arrived in Laos. This is the third grant we have received from California based Vitamin Angels and our third distribution of vitamins in Xieng Khouang Province. The process is long to get the vitamins from the
Vitamin Distribution Update
This morning we visited the Nonghed District Hospital, Mother and Child Division for an update on the distribution of daily multivitamins to every pregnant/lactating mother and all children from 6 months to 5 years (plus). We had the chance to
Second 2 Million Tablets Traveled 10,000 Miles
Congratulations to Give Children A Choice’s Debbie Davis and Thongchanh Vilayvong, Vitamin Angels’ staff Austen Musso, Catarina Sales, and those behind the scene. 4 million tablets of daily multiple vitamins for preschoolers and pregnant/lactating mothers have found their destinations in
Vitamins Arrive in Laos – Nearly 4 Million of Them!
Half of the vitamin shipment of nearly 4 million tablets from the USA will be dropped off at the NongHet District Hospital, located in eastern Xieng Khouang Province in northern Laos. Vitamins will be distributed to children from ages 1
Give Children A Choice to Bring Vitamins to Xieng Khouang Children
01-28-2010 Give Children A Choice to Bring Vitamins to Xieng Khouang Children Vannasone Keodara As you might have heard from our previous reports, the non-profit “Give Children A Choice (GCAC)” organization has built 21 pre-schools in Luang Prabang,
A picture is worth a thousand words. A video is worth a thousand emotions. Thachok Village January 2012
The videos below were taken at Thachok Village, a Hmong Village located 45 minutes east of the Xieng Khouang Province capital city of Phonsavan this past January 17, 2012. Give Children A Choice was there to distribute daily multiple vitamins
Vitamin Walk to Fight Chronic Malnutrition February 2012
Ban Phakeo secondary school children walk twelve kilometers back and forth twice each day to school. Some come home for lunch; others bring lunch to school. The children take one hour to walk six kilometers. We took six hours going