Sustaining Production, Sustaining Life, and Sustaining Growth

In 1994, Kevin Carter won the Pulitzer Prize for a photo taken during the Sudanese famine. This photo portrays what our project aims to fight more than words ever could: a vulture patiently waiting a few yards away from the frail, crouched body of a dying toddler. The Sudanese famine is only one example of conflict, drought, or natural disaster plunging an already hungry populous into a state of malnutrition.

We aim to fight this; we aim to stave off the vulture. Sadly though, there will always be another drought, another conflict, and another wave of starvation. We can't stop all sources of malnutrition, but we can provide a ready supply of the treatment and a community's ability to endure and mitigate each cause.

Hunger never goes away and neither should our production. This is why we've chosen to fund the production of our RUTF through the sale of peanut based foods to the consumer market. This way we can feed the starving by feeding the hungry and ensure that we can provide RUTF for today, tomorrow, and every day thereafter.

But we're setting out to do more than establish sustainable production of a ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) to fight malnutrition; we're setting out to to sustain growth. Our operations provide jobs in economies that desperately need them while promoting nutrition in children. In doing so, we help ensure the next generation grows up healthier and better equiped to further improve the economic situation of their communities.

Further, every part of our supply and production process, from the organic farmer to the RUTF production facilities is designed around the goal of being enviromentally sustainable.

Sustaining Production, Sustaining Life, and Sustaining Growth