The Washington Post, Giving What We Can, and The Life You Can Save Recommend Project Healthy Children to Donors

After a nearly year-long vetting process and extensive research and interviews, a group known as Giving What We Can (GWWC) selected Project Healthy Children (PHC) as one of the four charities that has the ability to help people to the greatest extent possible. Following this recommendation, the Washington Post’s Wonkblog Guide to Holiday Giving highlighted PHC as one of five recommended charities and The Life You Can Save (TLYCS) publicly commended PHC for its work and suggested us to donors.

To be recognized by these organizations and The Washington Post is a tremendous honor for PHC.

GWWC scrutinizes numerous interventions and organizations that have the best chance of meeting their mission of eliminating poverty in the developing world. Rather than focusing on overhead, GWWC utilizes a top-down method of identifying the most cost-effective and beneficial interventions, and then works to find organizations that excel at implementing them in the international community.

As the Washington Post points out, international charitable giving offers the best opportunity for far-reaching and life-changing poverty reduction. It’s hard to match the promise for change that international giving, and specifically, global micronutrient fortification offers.

We’d like to take this opportunity to thank those of you who have been with us since the early days and those of you who, thanks to GWWC, TLYCS, and The Washington Post, recognize the difference you can help make through micronutrient fortification. In the developing world where for just $0.30 per person per year we can greatly reduce maternal and infant mortality, blindness, severe mental impairment, and other micronutrient deficiency-related ailments and fatalities, this is tremendous.

As we see fortified food actively reaching the people who need it in Rwanda, Malawi, Liberia, and the Kathmandu Valley and ramp up our programs in Burundi, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe and Tanzania, we are proud and grateful to count you among our supporters. Saying thank you hardly seems like enough.