Project Peanut butter provides the most malnourished children in Malawi with medical food that is saving lives. In recent studies 95% of the children receiving therapy have recovered, versus only 25% recovery rate of traditional hospitalization.
The founders of Project Peanut Butter are Dr. Mark and his wife Mardi Manary. Dr. Manary is the co-inventor of the ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) that has been declared the most effective treatment against Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) by the United Nations, the World Health Organization, and UNICEF. Their RUTF formula has had a success rate of 96% in curing SAM. Children who are severely malnourished are identified through traveling clinics, and then their mothers are given a supply of the RUTF to feed the child for 3 to 6 weeks. These children not only survive, but they experience normal development after treatment. This is remarkably important, as children who just survive SAM have stunted mental and physical development.
If you have not heard of Project Peanut Butter (PPB), you need to check out their website and watch their amazing video on this page. We cannot begin to describe our excitement towards working together with Project Peanut Butter to save the lives of orphans in Africa!
Project Peanut Butter works on the ground in certain parts of Africa to provide clinically malnourished children with a proven formula to effectively restore their health through a medical food commonly referred to as Ready to Use Therapeutic Foods (RUTF) or Chiponde to the locals.
Through our partnership with PPB we hope to raise awareness about the amazing work this organization is doing, to help further their mission (every shirt we sell through Moju Project will provide a child with 1 week’s worth of this life-saving formula), to continue to be a voice and an advocate for these children, and to provide you with the opportunity to save lives!
Here is what we love about these guys!
- They are targeting the most vulnerable children and helping to reverse the heart-wrenching statistic that encompasses the fact that every year Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) contributes to the death of more than 3.5 million. It is the largest killer of children under five years of age.
- Their formula is made and distributed within local countr(ies) where it is being served and using as many local ingredients as possible- providing jobs for roughly 6,000 local farmers
- Their program is home-based; meaning the mommas and the gogos (grandmothers) are able to treat their children at home. We think this is really empowering to the family and by keeping these children out of the hospital they do not run the risk of contracting any viruses/ etc. that is very common due to the lack of sanitation at most hospitals.
- The recovery rate for children on this therapy is 95% compared to the 25-40% recovery rate of using traditional hospital therapies- that is more than double the amount of lives saved!
- Children that are clinically diagnosed by the medical team at Project Peanut Butter receive therapies for as long as medically necessary and at NO COST.
- RUTF was commended as the most effective method to treat severely malnourished children by the United Nations, The World Health Organization, and UNICEF.“…a food that may just the be the most important advance ever to cure and prevent malnutrition”- Anderson Cooper, Oct. 2007
- The formula for Chiponde is natural; consisting of peanuts, powdered milk, oil, sugar, vitamins and minerals. It can be stored without refrigeration for months without spoiling and requires no cooking.
Today, Project Peanut Butter serves hundreds of thousands of malnourished children. Their goal is to save 2 million children by 2015. We want to be a part of seeing that goal achieved and surpassed!
Part of our vision at the Moju Project is to change the world by changing the way we shop! If we all join together and reach out to those who need it most- we are making a difference…even more than that- we are seeing God’s Kingdom come to earth and His will being done!
Thank you Project Peanut Butter for joining us in saving lives!
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