When they received the bad news, Arrianne and Ryan Cañete didn’t know how they were going to save their daughter. Faith was diagnosed with the congenital heart disease called Tetralogy of Fallot. She had trouble breathing and the lowered amounts of oxygen in her blood would cause her to pass out. With a monthly income of $217, The Cañete family had no way to pay for their daughter’s surgery.
Fortunately, Arrianne and Ryan were able to find hope in the Southeast Asia Children’s Heart Fund, as they received the needed funding needed for the operation. Faith went through open heart...
Nu Skin’s Nourish the Children Initiative recently surpassed 500 million meals provided to malnourished children in need. Since its inception, Nourish the Children has been supported by a steady stream of VitaMeal that has been purchased and donated by generous Nu Skin sales leaders, customers and employees around the world.
The initiative first began in 2002 as an innovative way to alleviate hunger in a sustainable manner, and today it helps facilitate food donations to more than 150,000 children every day. Each meal provides much-needed nutrition to support both physical and mental development.
Sandie Tillotson and Dr. Paul Cox Celebrate Nu Skin’s 20 Years of Giving in Sri Lanka
August 08, 2016
Twenty years ago, the Nu Skin Force for Good Foundation partnered with the non-profit organization, Seacology to improve the lives of children and their families in island communities, and at the same time, help protect fragile island environments. Today, Seacology has completed more than 250 projects in 55 countries and has helped to protect more than a million acres of some of the world’s most vulnerable ecosystems. The partnership recently culminated in Seacology’s largest project yet – the Sri Lanka Mangrove Conservation Project. “It was a powerful experience to work alongside the wonderful people in Sri Lanka in a project...
Last month, a group of Nu Skin sales leaders from around the globe joined with executives to spend a week in Malawi. There they were able to see the effects of Nu Skin’s efforts, made through the Force for Good Foundation and the Nourish the Children initiative, to bolster the country and its people.
Attendees had the opportunity to distribute VitaMeal to children, tour the local VitaMeal plant, and visit a local community-based care center where children are served VitaMeal during school. In addition to the heart-warming experiences with the children impacted by Nourish the Children, the group attended the...
In 1993, Nu Skin co-founder, Blake Roney, used the phrase “force for good” when sharing the vision of how Nu Skin would be known around the world. In conjunction with Nu Skin’s Epoch product line, we introduced our force for good campaign in 1996. We’ve developed our Epoch products in partnership with the world’s leading ethnobotanists, focusing on including plants that indigenous cultures have used for centuries to promote healthy skin. We donate $0.25 from the sale of each Epoch product to help preserve the environments, languages, lifestyles, and traditions of indigenous people around the world.
Meet Chong Ly Ann, a beautiful 8-month-old girl from Sungai Buloh, Selangor. She was born with a large hole in her heart, extending from the upper chambers to the lower pumping chambers resulting in significant health problems. Doctors said she required major surgery in order to save Ly Ann's life but her parents couldn’t afford the surgery.
After trying everything to raise money for the surgery and save their daughter, Nu Skin Southeast Asia Children’s Heart Fund became aware of the Chong’s family’s story and provided the means to get Ly Ann the surgery. She underwent the PDA ligation to...
Julyana Celebrates 13th Birthday and Aspires to be Engineer
February 04, 2016
Julyana Niña C. Samson is a healthy, vibrant and active girl, who just celebrated her 13th birthday, but she wasn’t always that way. When Julyana was an infant, she was diagnosed with a congenital heart defect that left a hole in her heart requiring lifesaving surgery. The Nu Skin Southeast Asia Children’s Heart Fund (SEACHF) not only paid for the operation but went the extra mile to transport her to the hospital. This resulted in Julyana becoming the first cross boarder recipient of SEACHF, as she was from the Philippines but needed to have the surgery at a leading hospital...
Nu Skin Malaysia Grants 400 Wishes to Needy Children
January 15, 2016
Nu Skin Malaysia sponsored its annual Wish List Party fulling more than 400 wishes for underprivileged children from Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Johor Bahru and Kuching. The party was the culminating celebration of the Wish List Project that began in 2008 to fulfill wishes for children suffering from congenital heart disease (CHD). The project evolved into a partnership with the Institut Jantung Negara (IJN) Foundation in 2011, and now each November grants wishes to children who have survived open heart surgery funded by Nu Skin Southeast Asia Children’s Heart Fund.
The project works with wish cards hung on a Christmas tree...
Little Jiayin was born March 2014, in Guangdong Province, China. Her birth brought great happiness and hope to her family. Months after her birth, Jiayin was diagnosed with complex congenital heart disease (CHD) and needed to be kept in a local hospital’s intensive care unit.
Jiayin’s parents were devastated. They lost hope that their daughter would live to see the age of two because the corrective surgery was too expensive for them to afford. Nu Skin Greater China Children’s Heart Fund stepped in to renew Jiayin’s family’s hopes and paid for the lifesaving operation.
Mohamad Syariman Bin Hassan comes from a large family with seven siblings. He and his brothers and sisters stay in a wooden house with their parents in Malaysia. His father is the sole income provider for the family of nine so they live on a tight budget. The family doesn’t even have enough money to buy a vehicle to transport all of the children to school.
The family became even more financially stressed when doctors informed them that 11-year-old Mohamad was diagnosed with congenital heart disease. The family was in despair until the Nu Skin Southeast Asia Children’s Heart Fund...
