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    • Food is Not Enough:
       Without Essential Nutrients Millions of Children Will Die
       Group Calls for Increased and Expanded Use of New, Innovative
       Nutritional Products
    • Current food aid, which focuses on fighting hunger—not on treating malnutrition—is not doing enough to address the needs of young children most at risk.

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    • Meds & Food for Kids travels to Haiti year-round, for three weeks at a time. While in Haiti we stay at the Mont Joli Hotel in Cap Haitien, a good, safe and hygienic hotel with safe food and water, air conditioning, and electricity.

       

      We travel in four-wheel drive vehicles to the clinic every morning and return before dark. To say the roads are "bumpy" is an understatement! We enjoy delicious breakfasts and suppers at the hotel and pack our own sandwiches, cookies,  and iced tea for lunch at the clinic. The clinics have no electricity but have limited solar power that can run a few fans.

    • Meds & Food for Kids (MFK) is leading the charge to cure child malnutrition in Haiti, the poorest country in the Western hemisphere.
    • MFK combats childhood malnutrition using an innovative new approach: Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF).  Our product is Medika Mamba, an energy dense peanut butter, significantly fortified with protein and nutritional supplements.  The name Medika Mamba means “peanut butter medicine” in the Haitian Creole language.
    • Meds and Food for Kids was founded in 2004 by Patricia B. Wolff, MD, a pediatrician in private practice in St. Louis, Missouri and an Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at Washington University School of Medicine. MFK works to combat childhood malnutrition and related diseases in Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. We use an exciting new peanut-based feeding approach called Ready-to-Use Therapeutic food (RUTF). RUTF brings malnourished children back from the brink of death, and currently MFK is the only organization working to combat malnutrition in Haiti through RUTF.
    • Half of All Child Deaths
        Worldwide
       Are Caused by Malnutrition.
    • Project Peanut Butter is a therapeutic feeding program for malnourished children in Malawi and Sierra Leone, on the continent of Africa. It was founded by Professor Mark Manary, M.D., a pediatrician at St. Louis Children’s Hospital and a professor of pediatric medicine at Washington University School of Medicine. Dr. Manary has worked in Africa for more than two decades, finding his calling solving the problem of severe malnutrition among the world’s most impoverished and malnourished children. He is recognized the world over as a leading authority on severe childhood malnutrition.
    • Plumpy'nut, more commonly known as Plumpy, is a peanut-based food for use in famine relief which was formulated in 1999 by André Briend, a French scientist.

       

      It is a high protein and high energy peanut-based paste in a foil wrapper that can be distributed to children at home rather than in specialist feeding stations and can be eaten without any preparation. It tastes like a slightly sweeter kind of peanut butter. It is categorized by the WHO as a Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF).

    • The New York Times reported that the paste is administered in 500 kilocalorie (2.1 MJ) packets, twice daily, for two to four weeks, in combination with Unimix, a vitamin-enriched flour for making porridge, and will reverse malnutrition in severely malnourished children.1 The cost for four weeks of Plumpy'nut and Unimix is $35 per child.

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