Edesia’s Navyn Salem Defines Humanity
Navyn Salem, founder and CEO of the malnutrition social enterprise Edesia, discusses our shared humanity in caring for children all...
About This Episode
Navyn Salem, founder and CEO of the malnutrition social enterprise Edesia, discusses our shared humanity in caring for children all over the world. Edesia produces fortified, peanut-based products like Plumpy'Nut for international humanitarian agencies working in emergency and conflict zones. “We feed children everywhere because that's what humanity is, and we do not want to lose our humanity. We are smart enough. We have enough resources. We're creative and innovative enough to feed every child on planet Earth,” Salem asserts. Edesia has been impacted by Trump Administration decisions around foreign aid in the last seven months. “I started speaking up and explaining to people that huge parts of humanitarian assistance that the US government does are a win-win for the world and they have to be continued,” she says.Resources and Mentions:
Navyn Salem
Founder and CEO
Navyn Salem is a social entrepreneur helping to end the crisis of global malnutrition. She founded Edesia, a U.S. non-profit, social enterprise, with a mission to treat and prevent malnutrition in developing countries in 2009 and has so far reached over 25 million children in 65 countries, including Somalia, Venezuela, Yemen and Syria.
Edesia
Named after the Roman goddess of food, Edesia is on a mission to end malnutrition. They have the team, the factory, and the life-saving foods to make that a reality. To date, they have produced ready-to-use foods for 25 million children and mothers in 65 countries. They they pledge not to stop until malnutrition is a condition covered in the history books, not the nightly news.
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