WCVB Chronicle: Navyn Salem fights childhood hunger

On Friday, November 16, 2012, our Executive Director, Navyn Salem, was featured in a WCVB Chronicle "Game Changer" episode. 

WCVB journalist, Anthony Everett, visited Edesia in October with his production crew to capture the story of how Edesia began and how, since opening, it has impacted the lives of over one million children around the world. 

Watch the video here ... 

Fox CT Special Assignment: Saving Children a World Away 

Anthony DiLorenzo, news anchor from Fox CT, reports on Edesia's efforts to treat severe malnutrition in children globally.

The video features interviews with our founder and Executive Director, Navyn Salem; her father Fazli Datoo, originally from Tanzania; and Andrew Kamara, our supply chain supervisor, who once experienced life in a refugee camp. 

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Navyn Salem Speaks As Part of CGI Stories

An interview with Edesia's Executive Director Navyn Salem where she tells the story of where and why Edesia began and how the factories in Tanzania and Providence came to be built.

Edesia Featured on NBC Nightly News

Edesia was featured in the Making a Difference segment on September 1, 2011 on NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams

Our little factory is running 22 hours a day, 6 days a week in response to the famine in East Africa. At this pace we are making enough Plumpy'nut to reach over 50,000 children EVERY DAY.

But we need to do more. Over 30,000 children under five perished due to starvation this summer alone in the Horn of Africa. Right this minute, 640,000 more children are at risk of dying from malnutrition -- hence our goal to double our production capacity immediately so we can serve 100,000 children every day. Click here to be a part of the solution.

RI Company Battling Malnutrition with Plumpy’Nut^®

Employees at the non-profit organization work in shifts around the clock, producing thousands of small but life-saving silver packets. The product is called Plumpy'Nut^®.

"It is made here in Rhode Island and the results have been really incredible. The kids have actually changed from skin and bones, to a healthy, plump baby in a matter of weeks," said Andrew Kamara, supply chain supervisor at Edesia.

Watch the full story of how Edesia is responding in East Africa.

Edesia’s Commitment to Tackle Malnutrition Highlighted at CGI America

President Clinton speaks about Edesia and our work to address malnutrition –
"It’s a great thing. It creates jobs. It creates opportunities here, it creates opportunity in countries we are trying to support. So I want to thank them.”

To watch the video and learn about CGI and the conference, click "Read more...".

BE THE CHANGE: sAVE A LIFE
Six common health problems around the world and what can be done to fix them.

December 17, 2010
Diane Sawyer

ABC News is traveling the world as part of a year-long special called "Be the Change: Save a Life".
Part II 'Tortillas and Coffee' as Baby Food: Malnutrition causes stunting and development problems in young children in Guatemala.

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BE THE CHANGE - Global Malnutrition
Christiane Amanpour reports on a promising nutritional supplement.

December 19, 2010
Christiane Amanpour

ABC News is traveling the world as part of a year long special called "Be the Change: Save a Life". The first one thousand days of a child's life are critical in getting proper food for them to grow physically and to develop mentally. But around the world children suffer from malnutrition with life-long consequences.

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The Peanut Solution: An easy-to-produce paste may help cure malnourishment around the world.

Sept. 2, 2010
By Andrew Rice

Like most tales of great invention, the story of Plumpy’Nut^® begins with a eureka moment, in this case involving a French doctor and a jar of Nutella, and proceeds through the stages of rejection, acceptance, evangelization and mass production. The product may not look like much — a little foil packet filled with a soft, sticky substance — but its advocates are prone to use the language of magic and wonders. What is Plumpy’Nut^®? Sound it out, and you get the idea: it’s an edible paste made of peanuts, packed with calories and vitamins, that is specially formulated to renourish starving children. Since its widespread introduction five years ago, it has been credited with significantly lowering mortality rates during famines in Africa.

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The Plumpy Crusader: A new resource offers hope for the hungry, but Congress still holds the keys to food aid.

March 30, 2010
By Katie Paul

As Navyn Salem starts up the machines for the first time at her factory in Providence, R.I., this month, she has all the anxieties of any new business owner: whether the equipment will work, who will buy her products, how to cover her employees' benefits, and how to raise the profile of Edesia, the food-manufacturing producer she's launching.

60 MINUTES WITH ANDERSON COOPER

October 21, 2007
Running Time: 11 min. 10 sec.

Anderson Cooper tells the Plumpy'nut story from one of the poorest countries in the world, Niger. Watch the clip here.