MANA (Mother Administered Nutritive Aid)
Non-profit OrganizationsGeorgia, United States51-200 Employees
MANA Nutrition is a nonprofit based in Fitzgerald, Georgia, that develops and manufactures a fortified peanut paste-based ready-to-use therapeutic food designed to address severe acute malnutrition in children. The product is formulated to meet a child's basic nutritional needs, and its use is described as roughly three servings per day for six weeks, a regimen the organization says can be life-saving for severe SAM cases. Although organized as a nonprofit, the organization operates with established business practices to run its operations. The operation supports production capacity up to 21,000 kilograms daily and distributes through partners to countries including Kenya, Sudan, Rwanda, Chad, Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Burundi, North Korea and Guatemala. A significant share of its product is used in village settings, often by empowering mothers with nutritious ready-to-eat food to help their children.