Vitamin Program

Dove Missions is going to be launching a new Vitamin Program for the kids in the new year, the first week of January. Many of the kids who attend the Boys and Girls Clubs have very limited diets and don't get all the nutrition their bodies need. Vitamins will help balance their nutrition and keep them healthy.

As of now, we have collected 7800 vitamins!! This is enough to launch an 8 month program for about half of our children! We haven't decided yet which children will take part in the program; we are thinking of possibly doing one gender (either all the girls, or all the boys) or doing it by age (all the kids 9 and under). We will post final details in January when the program launches.

The vitamins will be organized into small bags with 7 vitamins in each bag (see the photo). Every Saturday when the kids are at Club, we will hand out a bag that will have enough vitamins for that week. Before the program launches, we will hold a nutrition classes for the kids and their mothers, teaching them about the importance of vitamins and how and why their kids should take them.

All that said, the long term goal is to have enough vitamins for all the kids in the Dove Missions program. We also hope to extend this program past 8 months. Because of this, we would greatly appreciate donations of vitamins from anyone coming to Puerto Plata to volunteer at the Center. We are using any kind of chewable children's multivitamin. For people wishing to help from Canada, you can donate using Shoppers Drug Mart points. Just go to the Shoppers website and click on Shoppers Optimum, and then Transfer Points (http://www.shoppersdrugmart.ca/english/optimum/transfer_points/index.html) You will have to enter in your card information, and then put in the following card info. You will need the last 9 digits of my card, which are: 893 742 330

Contact Nikki at ncochrane3@hotmail.com if you want more info on how you can support this program.