GHAP and Planet Care provide technical and funding support for ethnic minority health organizations to conduct widespread Vitamin A distribution and deworming for children in their villages. Vitamin A given only twice per year not only reduces blindness, but reduces a child's chance of death by one-third in vitamin A deficient populations. Deworming twice per year reduces malnutrition and improves a child's cognitive function and capacity to learn.

With technical support from GHAP, our local partner organizations, the Backpack Health Worker Team (BPHWT) and the Karen Department of Heath and Welfare (KDHW) have conducted surveys which demonstrate extremely poor dietary intake, including lack of vitamin A containing foods, and high levels of child malnutrition. In response to this, BPHWT and KDHW distribute 50,000 vitamin A and deworming tablets twice per year to children in their target populations.