Throughout May, The Vitamin Shoppe, 17 W. 700 22nd St., Oakbrook Terrace, will collect cash donations for Vitamin Angels’ Operation 20/20 campaign.

The fundraiser will help eradicate childhood blindness caused by vitamin A deficiency worldwide by the year 2020. It will do so by providing two high-dose vitamin A capsules to children ages 1 to 4 as well as lactating mothers each year for a course of four to five years.

Operation 20/20 reached more than 7 million children, mothers and babies in 17 countries around the world in 2007. In addition to the vitamin A, all the children received de-worming medicine to improve the absorption of the vitamin A and help combat intestinal parasites.

Customers who donate $1 or more will have a Vitamins Angel paper angel hung up in the store. Customers who donate $5 or more will receive an Operation 20/20 wrist band.

Limited edition T-shirts also will be available for $10. Donations can be made online at www.vitaminshoppe.com.

For more information, call The Vitamin Shoppe at (630) 705-1170.