Lifesaving Plumpy'Nut for Children in the Sahel

The Sahel region of Africa is vast, spanning nine countries—Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, The Gambia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria and Senegal. In the attached video, Fabienne Pompey, of the World Food Programme, reminds us that there are five million children younger than five in the region who urgently need help recovering from severe malnutrition. 

No single organization can reach all five million children alone, but we can each do our part. Your donations to Edesia help us to send more supplies of Plumpy'Nut and Plumpy'Sup to our humanitarian partners, which means more children can be reached. 

Here is an update on how many cartons we have shipped to the Sahel region since the start of 2014:

• Burkina Faso: 18,190 cartons of Plumpy'Nut/RUTF - enough to treat 18,190 children with severe acute malnutrition (SAM).
• Cameroon: 5,500 cartons of Plumpy'Nut - enough to treat 5,500 children with SAM; 33,350 cartons of Plumpy'Sup - enough to treat 83,825 children with moderate acute malnutrition (MAM). 
• Chad: 15,000 cartons of Plumpy'Nut - enough to treat 15,000 children with SAM.
• Mali: 18,300 cartons of Plumpy'Nut - enough to treat 18,300 children with SAM.  
• Mauritania: 2,300 cartons of Plumpy'Sup - enough to treat 4,600 children with MAM; 2,300 cartons of Plumpy'Nut - enough to treat 2,300 children with SAM.
• Niger: 4,600 cartons of Plumpy'Sup, enough to treat 4,600 children with MAM. 

All of this adds up to Edesia manufacturing and shipping nutritious food aid to 283,540 children in the Sahel region.

Thank you so much for your support, which makes our efforts on behalf of these children all the more possible. 

Links:

• 5 million children in Africa's Sahel face acute malnutrition: UN