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Today
Today, Project Peanut Butter (PPB) serves hundreds of thousands of malnourished children. The non-profit organization has 3 main methods of distributing Chiponde to those who need it:
PPB sites (21 clinics) providing the RUTF, staff, training and outreach;
PPB-supported sites (~50) receiving the RUTF and training at no cost,
PPB affiliated clinics where we sell our RUTF at the cost of manufacture to multiple governments and charities (~90) around the world.

One of the most unique aspects to the organization’s work is that the Chiponde is produced within the local countr(ies) where it is served, using as many local ingredients as possible. PPB’s Malawi factory is located in Blantyre and buys ingredients from local peanut and soy farmers, helping to sustain the local economy. Roughly 6,000 local farmers are supported through the project’s expanding food production in Malawi.
An important component of the success of the PPB model is the training that local health workers receive from PPB staff to identify Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM), dispense the RUTF, and administer the program. Again, helping to provide jobs and stabilize the local community.

Today, PPB is expanding into Sierra Leone, where another factory is being built and local staff are being trained.

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