MFK in the News 2010
WashU Report
January 26, 2010
Geroge Warren Brown School of Social Work Assistant Professor Laura Ionatti interviews with Tom Stehl about Haiti.
Watch Here: First Hand Account of Earth Quake
Iowan at St. Louis nonprofit helps nourish Haiti children
Des Moines Register, by: Reid Forgrave
January 26, 2010
Tom Stehl, MFK's Director of Operations, is interviewed about his contribution to MFK's work in St. Louis and Haiti.
Read More: Des Moines Register interviews Tom Stehl
Brown School Professor survives Haiti Earthquake - Shifts focus to preventing further public health disaster
Washington University in St. Louis Record, by: Jessica Martin
January 22, 2010
Jessica Martin talks to Dr. Lora Ionnatti, nutrition and public health expert at the Brown School, about the public health consequences of the earthquake. Ionatti advocates Ready-to-use supplemental and therapeutic foods like Medika Mamba which deliver not only the daily caloric but also the complete daily micronutrient needs.
Read More: Haiti's public health realities
Earthquake aftermath frustrates area doctor
St. Louis Post Dispatch, by: Doug Moore
January 22, 2010
Doug Moore captures Dr. Wolff's view of the response to the earthquake: gratefulness for the financial contributions and frustration that the focus is on rescue as opposed to development.
Read More: Haiti Earthquake responce focusses on rescue
Film Shows Meds & Foods for Kids in Haiti
St. Louis Business Journal, by: Doug Moore
January 21, 2010
Footage from MFK documentary filmed by Frank Popper and Lori Dowd appears on Oprah show
Read More: St. Louis Business Journal article
Meds & Food for Kids (MFK) Moves Quickly to Meet Crisis in Haiti; Races to Replace $80,000 in Lost Raw Materials
Marketwire article
January 19, 2010
Article details MFK's scramble after raw materials lost in destroyed seaport. One urgent problem is obtaining enough raw materials -- peanuts, sugar, oil, dried milk, vitamins and minerals -- to produce this new supply of Mamba. Just before the quake hit, MFK had a large container with $80,000 worth of materials in the capital's seaport, which was completely destroyed by the quake.
Read More: MFK's response to this challenge.
MFK Video Trailer Created
January 18, 2010
Watch a short clip of the MFK's amazing work in Haiti
Watch Here: Learn how a small insight can create change
MFK featured on Jaco Report
Fox2 Now St. Louis
January 17, 2010
Tom Stehl's speaks about why Americans should have compassion for Haiti despite difficult economic times at home
Watch here: The Jaco Report: Haiti Earthquake
Scottrade gives $100,000 to Sanon, Meds & Foods for Kids for Haiti Relief
St. Louis Business Journal
January 15, 2010
Scottrade's $50,000 donation to MFK will provide enough food to feed 800 people for two months.
MFK on St. Louis News Channel 5 KDSK
January 14, 2010
Tom Stehl speaks about Medika Mamba and how the earthquake affected MFK's distribution network in Haiti
Watch Here: Earthquake Affects on Meds & Food for Kids
Meds & Food braces for demand, awaits word on Haitian employee
St. Louis Business Journal, by: Diana Barr
January 13, 2010
Diana Barr writes about the safety of MFK's Cap Haitien facility and staff as well as the uncertainty of the depot and an employee in Port-au-Prince.
Read Here: MFK employee missing after Earthquake
Pat Wolff and Tom Stehl Interview about Haiti Earthquake
KTVI FOX 2
Watch Here: Dr. Wolff's and Tom Stehl's initial reactions to the earthquake
St. Louis Business Journal
February 24, 2010
Nestlé Purina PetCare President and Chief Executive W. Patrick McGinnis plans to host a reception in March at Purina’s St. Louis h;eadquarters to congratulate Wolff and to further recognize the Meds & Food for Kids organization.
Read Here: Find out how Nestlé heard about MFK
MEMC gives $20K to Meds & Foods for Kids for Haiti
St. Louis Business Journal
February 19, 2010
MEMC Electronic Materials Inc.’s charitable foundation has donated $25,000 to Meds & Food for Kids, a St. Louis-based nonprofit feeding Haitians in the wake of last month’s earthquake.
In the midst of a disaster
Oakdale Lake Elmo Review, by: Derrick Knutson
February 11, 2010
Derrick Knutson, writing from Dr. Wolff's hometown, provides an account of her charitable work from developing a free clinic in medical school to her current work producing RUTF in Haiti.
Read Here: Hometown perspective of how Dr. Wolff got her start in charitable work
Haitian Quake gives new meaning to mission of St. Louis-based Meds and Food for Kids
St. Louis Beacon, by: Kristen Hare
February 11, 2010
Kristen Hare writes about the new context in which Medika Mamba is being used post-earthquake.
Read Here: Medika Mamba has contributing to Haiti relief effort
"St. Louisans in Haiti" explores the experience of Laura Ionatti and Tom Stehl in Haiti
St. Louis on the Air
February 4, 2010
Listen Here: Laura and Tom discuss the challenges of operating in Haiti.
Novus, World Trade center launch $100,000 campaign for Meds & Food for Kids in Haiti
St. Louis Business Journal
February 3, 2010
St. Louis Business Journal tells story of Challenge Campaign started by Novus International and World Trade Center- St. Louis with the goal to raise $100,000 for MFK from the St. Louis community.
Read Here: Novus has agreed to match employee donations, dollar-for-dollar.
Don Marsh Interviews Dr. Patricia Wolff and Steve Taviner
St. Louis on the Air
March 3, 2010
MFK's Operations Officer live on KWMU. Addressing the bigger picture, they talk about the organizations' long standing history as well as its current efforts of both recovery and long term development in Haiti.
Take 5: Dr. Patricia Wolff
St. Louis Beacon article
March 1, 2010
Dr. Patricia Wolff headed into Haiti days after the January earthquake to find that in some parts of the country, everything had changed, and in others, life continued.
GAIN forum: Tom Stehl presents the Meds & Food for Kids (MFK) project to fight malnutrition in Haiti.
May 26, 2010
Tom Stehl explains how MFK fits the social entrepreneurship model
Listen Here: The Global Alliance for Malnutrition encourages public-private partnership.
Project Unum features MFK
Project Unum is a non-profit that raises money for other non-profits by featuring 2-3 NGOs on their website each month.
28 May 2010
A Tremor for Haiti's Aid industry
Foreign Policy article
June 30, 2010
Pooja Bhatia writes about MFK's approach to aid and development, and the ability of local producers to compete in the flooded Haitian aid market.
Read about the difficulties of competing with externally based organizations here.
In Haiti for the Long Haul
Washington Univeristy in St. Louis Magazine, by: Candace O'Connor
Summer 2010
After an earthquake rocked Haiti in January, members of the university community answered the call to serve, assisting our beleaguered neighbors to the south. And their work continues...
Read More: MFK's plan for development.
Dr. Peanut: A St. Louis Pediatrician Battles Child Malnutrition in Haiti
River Front Times, by: Aimee Levitt
July 1, 2010
A small room off to the side is bare except for an examination table, a makeshift desk piled with folders and bottles of medicine, and two narrow wooden benches pushed up against the walls. A tall Haitian nurse wearing a white dress and a cap and stockings, straight out of the 1950s, confers with a smaller, wiry American woman over a pair of height-and-weight charts.The Haitian is Marie Fleurese Gourges, head nurse of Justinien's infant malnutrition clinic. The American is Dr. Patricia Wolff, a St. Louis pediatrician. Wolff is 62 years old. She has large blue eyes, short blonde hair, a pointed chin — and a commanding presence. As her friend Mary McElwain puts it: "Pat is a person who feels people should listen to her."
Read More: Dr. Peanut
Haitian Orphans Have Little but One Another
The New York Times, by: Deborah Sontag
July 5, 2010
Deborah Sontag mentions Medika Mamba in her article on Frades, an organization specializing in microloans that has taken responsibility for orphaned/abandoned children after the earthquake. Readers of an earlier NYT article about the orphans generated donations of cash and medika mamba to supply the children with basic needs.
Progress Comes Slowly in Haiti-Part 1
St. Louis Beacon Article, by: Patricia Rice
July 22, 2010
The tragedy in Haiti has steeled the determination of several seasoned St. Louis volunteers to educate, mentor and help more Haitians become self-sustaining. Haitians must serve their own people and run their own hospitals, schools and society, they said in interviews this week. Meds & Foods for Kids, a Haitian hyper-nutritious food factory in Cap Haitien, founded by St. Louisan Dr. Patricia Wolff in 2004, will build a new factory and close its existing one.
Peanut Butter Miracle
Webster-Kirkwood Times Online, by: Fran Mannino
August 27, 2010
Peanut butter - that everyday staple of children's lunches - is remarkably similar to a product playing a major role in the ongoing battle against global malnutrition. Documenting its use in Haiti are filmmakers Frank Popper of Webster Groves and Lori Dowd, vice president of program development at Avatar Studios in St. Louis. The peanut butter product at the center of the film is known in Haiti as "Medika Mamba" or "peanut butter medicine." It is being produced and distributed in Haiti through the non-profit Meds & Food for Kids (MFK) organization.
Read more: Meds & Food For Kids will be featured in Haiti Documentary
The Peanut Solution
New York Times Magazine, by: Andrew Rice
September 2, 2010
Like most tales of great invention, the story of Plumpy’nut begins with a eureka moment, in this case involving a French doctor and a jar of Nutella, and proceeds through the stages of rejection, acceptance, evangelization and mass production. The product may not look like much — a little foil packet filled with a soft, sticky substance — but its advocates are prone to use the language of magic and wonders. What is Plumpy’nut?
Wolff's Battle In The Business For Hunger
St. Louis Business Journal, by: Trish Miller
September 7, 2010
St. Louis pediatrician Patricia Wolff's struggle to keep her Meds & Food for Kids nonprofit going was mentioned in a New York Times magazine piece Sunday on world hunger. Meds & Food for Kids makes fortified nut paste to help feed starving children in Haiti. Wolff told Times Reporter Andrew Rice that her nonprofit faces steep competition from Nutriset, a private, for-profit French company that makes its own paste called Plumpy’nut, according to Rice’s story, “The Peanut Solution.”
Read more: Wolff's battle in the business for hunger | St. Louis Business Journal
Charlie Brennan Interviews Dr. Patricia Wollf
KMOX.COM
October 1, 2010
Charlie talks with Dr. Patricia Wolff, St. Louis pediatrician and founder of the non-profit, Meds and Food for Kids, providing health care and nutrition to the children of Haiti. Listen to Dr. Patricia Wolff's interview with Charlie Brennan from KMOX on Meds & Food For Kids work in Haiti.
Listen Here: MFK Provides Health Care and Nutrition to Children in Haiti
Local Product Global Cause
The Providence Phoenix October 6, 2010 The Phoenix Providence describes Edesia's effort to produce and distribute Plumpy'nut globally to end malnutrition and stimulate local development. Steve Taviner, Meds & Food for Kids Development Director, is featured in the article about his take on malnutrition, funding and the miracle of Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food. "It saves hundreds and hundreds of lives every day," says Taviner. "You hear parents say all the time after they've used it, 'I thought my child was dead and now he's alive.' " Read More: Providence - based Edesia wants to end world hunger. But are we willing to pay for it?
