By Julie Cramer
Every day 11-year-old Kevin, weighing only 50 pounds, digs through a trash dump in Nueva Suyapa, one of Honduras’ most dangerous and impoverished communities, looking for food. His mother, two brothers, and sister rely on him to salvage something they can eat.
Very often, the food Kevin does find lacks the vital nutrition he and his siblings need to grow up healthy and strong. To Kevin, and the others like him all over the world, malnutrition can be life-threatening. Without access to proper nutrition, these children become susceptible to a host of health problems such as stunting and blindness, and due to a weakened immune system, infectious diseases such as measles, diarrhea, and malaria that cause the deaths of about 1 million children every year.
In June Orphan Outreach and WaYfm—a broadcast ministry out of Michigan—took action against malnutrition. Thanks to Aidmatrix, a national disaster relief organization, and a generous donation from Vitamin Angels, a nonprofit organization in Santa Barbara, California, WaYfm’s medical team distributed more than 2,500 bottles of mulit-vitamins in Nueva Suyapa and the surrounding communities. More than 1,700 children received a year’s supply of supplements.
“Our solutions help others to get the right aid to the right people. We’re proud to partner with Vitamin Angels and Orphan Outreach in their mission of supplying medical relief to those in need,” Governor Scott McCallum of the Aidmatrix Foundation said.
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