By Laura Soucy | Annual Giving Manager
As you may already know, malnutrition is the number one underlying cause of death for children under five in Haiti. Additionally, Haiti has the third highest rate of hunger in the world. These are some of the reasons why Partners In Health's malnutrition initiatives in Haiti are so important -- and it is your support that enables us to continue growing our programs that save lives.
Over the past year, Partners In Health and our sister organization Zanmi Lasante in Haiti have drastically scaled up the production of Nourimanba, a ready-to-use therapeutic food used to treat malnourished children. In partnership with the Abbott Fund, we opened a state-of-the-art production facility, dramatically increasing the capacity for production of Nourimanba to reach more kids and save more lives. Not only is this scale-up benefitting the patients who are prescribed RUTF, but also the local economy. So far, it has created 35 new jobs (eventually this number will grow to 75-100), while also increasing the demand for peanut farmers in Haiti, as all peanuts are purchased locally.
Thank you, again, for your support of our work to treat children with malnutrition in Haiti. We could not do this work without you.
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