Ever since the Trump Administration abruptly dismantled the U.S. Agency for International Development, emergency food supplies have been piling up at the North Kingstown warehouse of Edesia Nutrition. As of last week, Edesia had stockpiled more than 120,000 boxes of Plumpy’Nut, a specially formulated mixture of ground peanuts, powdered milk, sugar and oil created to […]
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Edesia looks for clarity amid chaos of Trump cuts
Outside Edesia’s North Kingstown headquarters, bulldozers are busy digging the foundation for a giant new warehouse to store the company’s product: Plumpy’Nut, a life-saving fortified peanut butter to feed malnourished children around the world. The construction project, planned long before the abrupt gutting of USAID, is funded by private donors. The Bezos family gave $137 […]
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Caught in foreign aid freeze, R.I.’s Edesia gets good news
It’s been a roller coaster week for the folks who work at Edesia, a Rhode Island nonprofit that helps feed hungry children around the world. Senior staff members were in Sierra Leone, visiting one of their feeding programs, when the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) issued an immediate stop-work order for all of its […]
