Charlotte-based company asks for help in fight against hunger in Africa

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CHARLOTTE -- A Matthews man is fighting world hunger with peanut butter. The Charlotte-based company MANA Nutrition produces a peanut paste that's been saving lives in Africa for more than a year. But to spread its reach, he's calling on the community for support.

"A child dies every six seconds from malnutrition, six seconds," said MANA Nutrition Founder and CEO Mark Moore.

After spending 10 years working as a missionary in the eastern African country Uganda, Moore served as an Africa specialist in the U.S. Senate, where he first heard about RUTF.

"Everyone has gathered around and said what is the way, not a way, but the way to treat kids who are on the edge, who are dying today," said Moore.

It's Ready to Use Therapeutic Food. A peanut butter and powdered milk paste taken three times a day over six weeks that's saving children's lives in Africa, a world hotspot for malnutrition.

"Each one of these boxes, each one of these packets represents a life in the child," said Moore.

MANA Nutrition, started by Moore in 2009, makes the shelf stable paste easy for mothers of starving children to serve on their own. It's what Moore is calling the front line of defense to take on world hunger.

"For that Mom today in Sudan who has a starving child in her hands, she needs a little bit of peanut butter and powered milk. It's not rocket science," said Moore.

It's giving second chances to children who would otherwise only have hours to live. And, something Moore says is not needed in the U.S. because malnutrition here stems from other issues, like financial stability.

"There are hungry kids in the United States, there are kids who go to school and don't have the proper nutrition, and it's terrible. But they don't need our product," said Moore.

It's produced in a Georgia plant, $10 million facility up and running for more than a year, but needs continued support.

"What we can do is make it, and what we need is a funder. Someone, a mom out there who sees this and says, 'I'd like for this to be part of our families giving for this year,'" said Moore.

One box serves a child with 150 packets and costs about $50, enough therapy for a six-week course, and a child's future.

MANA Nutrition is getting a second production facility started in Rwanda. It's scheduled to open this year.

Source: http://charlotte.news14.com/content/top_stories/651887/charlotte-based-company-asks-for-help-in-fight-against-hunger-in-africa

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