Childhood Malnutrition in post-earthquake Haiti

Thanks so much for choosing to support Partners In Health and our work to combat pediatric malnutrition in Haiti.  We're happy to share progress made over the last year.

Partners In Health has strategically invested in Haiti’s Central Plateau over the past 25 years to comprehensively address the root causes of poverty and disease. Establishing a Nourimanba production facility in Haiti was critical to PIH's multi-pronged approach to addressing pediatric malnutrition. Our experiences in the last two years have clearly shown that as it gets to scale, the Nourimanba production facility will continue to  provide reliable, high-quality, and economical therapeutic food that also provides economic opportunity for Haitian farmers. This will have a transformative impact for children’s health in our service area. We are committed to treating the effects of malnutrition in the short term, while simultaneously contributing to an infrastructure that can support long-term food security.

In 2014, the facility produced 80,000 kilograms of Nourimanba. This exceeds our original goal of 60,000 kilograms for 2014, and was enough to to provide 1,650 full courses of treatment to severely malnourished children through 12 nutritional clinics.

We are now at a place where we can look beyond the first phase of start-up and focus on goal setting for the second phase of our five-year plan for launching the Nourimanba production facility. We deeply appreciate your partnership in this complex fight against malnutrition.