MFK in the News
2009 & earlier
December 27, 2009: St. Louis Beacon Article: Beacon Update: St. Louis non-profit up and running after salmonella scare but facing challenges
Kristen Hare explains the effects that the US peanut butter salmonella outbreak had on MFK's production of Medika Mamba in Haiti. Read how MFK got up and running through a USAID international food safety audit.
2009: MFK Videos
- Meds & Food for Kids Documentary: Watch MFK's story here.
- UN Video- Haiti: Medika Mamba: In the face of the global food crisis, MFK works to cure malnutrition and stimulate the local economy.
November 18, 2008: CNN story: As children starve, world struggles for solution
John Blake asks why are some women forced to choose which of their children they can feed? And what are we doing to fix it? Dr. Wolff offers some ideas on how development as opposed to aid could change the situation.
Find out how MFK is combatting world hunger.
August 21, 2008: Christian Science Monitor article: Doing well by doing good? It's not easy.
Ben Arnoldy writes about the challenges of combining social and business ideals, as Tom Stehl, MFK's operations coordinator, attends a business class called GSBI (Global Social Business Indicator). Stehl seeks a way to scale up production to lower the cost per unit of producing Medika Mamba.
Read about the change in thinking necessary from startup to scale up of an organization.
2008: MFK Videos
- #1 Peanut Collaborative Research Support Program: Watch US peanut expert explain the dangers of aflatoxin to Haitian farmers.
- Lifesaving Peanuts (April 21)
- Meds & Food for Kids: Haiti (February 29)
2007 MFK Videos:
- Malnutrition in Haiti: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
- All Together Now Interview- Watch an interview with MFK executive director, Dr. Patricia Wolff.
