If you have not heard of Project Peanut Butter (PPB), you need to check out their website and watch their amazing video at the end of this post! 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!
1. 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.
2. 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
3. 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.
4. 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!
5. 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.
a. RUTF was commended as the most effective method to treat severely malnourished children by the United Nations, The World Health Organization, and UNICEF.
b. “…a food that may just the be the most important advance ever to cure and prevent malnutrition”- Anderson Cooper, Oct. 2007
6. 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.
The more we continue to learn about Project Peanut Butter and their hearts for the children, the more we absolutely love them! They are most definitely the “real deal”!
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!
Please check out this extremely powerful video by Project Peanut Butter and join us in being a voice for the voiceless, bringing hope to those who need it most!
“Saving Futures. Saving Lives. The Story Of Project Peanut Butter.” Narrated By Allison Janney.
Ready to save a life through our Project Peanut Butter Partners? Please click here to visit our shop! Once you have found a shirt you love, you can select to “provide life saving formula to a malnourished child”. We are doing it for the ONE! Join us and together we can save lives!!!