“A billion people endure and suffer the irreversible effects of hunger and malnutrition,” Navyn Salem told me. Salem is the Founder and Executive Director of Edesia, a new nonprofit manufacturing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (WPRI) — Edesia Nutrition, a North Kingstown-based nonprofit, has laid off 10% of its workforce due to a ...

More than 70 million meal packets for severely malnourished children in Africa have stacked up in warehouses in Georgia and Rhode Island since March amid the Trump administration’s massive cuts to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (WPRI) — More than 120,000 boxes of fortified peanut paste — which Edesia Nutrition ships globally to combat ...

Edesia Nutrition is one of two US-based manufacturers of Plumpy'Nut, a ready-to-use therapeutic food. President Donald Trump's dismantling of USAID threw Edesia's survival into question. Trump's U.S.

(WJAR) — After weeks of waiting, Quonset-based nonprofit Edesia is getting federal funds owed from fiscal year 2024, but the federal government isn't placing new orders yet, leading to continued ...

NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (WPRI) — Edesia Nutrition, a North Kingstown-based nonprofit, is ramping up production after months in limbo. Navyn Salem, founder and CEO of Edesia Nutrition, announced ...

Since President Donald Trump froze international aid in January, hundreds of thousands of packets of Edesia's famine-fighting food worth millions of dollars has been stuck in Rhode Island warehouses ...

PROVIDENCE – Edesia Nutrition, a North Kingstown, R.I.-based nonprofit that works to feed malnourished children around the world, has laid off 10 percent of its approximately 150 total employees due ...

NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (WPRI) — Edesia Nutrition, a North Kingstown-based nonprofit, has laid off 10% of its workforce due to a lack of government funding. Navyn Salem, founder and CEO of Edesia ...