Solving the Bottleneck: MFK’s New Facility Ensures Lifesaving Supplies Reach Haitian Families

Meds & Food for Kids (MFK) has significantly increased its capacity in 2025, taking on the critical role of warehousing and distributing essential humanitarian supplies for UNICEF and the Haitian Ministry of Public Health (MSPP). MFK is now storing and distributing all therapeutic food, medical, and hygiene supplies throughout Haiti for the two major partners. This comes after MFK built a new warehouse and perimeter wall at its factory site in Cap-Haitien, Haiti.

“MFK continues to deliver on our mission to save lives and transform futures, and warehousing and distribution provide new sources of revenue to increase our impact,”  says Chris Greene, chief executive officer of Meds & Food for Kids. 

An anonymous donor financed the construction of the warehouse and perimeter wall.

“In a period of heightened instability, the new perimeter wall has provided greater security. This has been invaluable – not just for staff morale – but also for building confidence among our partners and stakeholders,” says Remenson Tenor, chief operating officer of MFK. 

The World Food Programme, UNICEF, and MSPP now view MFK’s Cap-Haitien site as one of the safest and most strategically sound locations in the country for warehousing and transport operations. 

“Partners know MFK for its ability to deliver supplies the last mile to remote communities,” Greene says. “MFK excels at last-mile distribution because we are locally led.”

Before the MSPP and UNICEF asked for help with last-mile distribution, essential supplies were not reaching government clinics. Warehouses had become bottlenecks; children were going untreated. 

“MFK stepped in not to replace the Haitian food and nutrition system, led by Dr. Joseline Marhone Pierre, but to help preserve it – to keep it functional long enough to reform,” Greene says. “The initiative pairs MFK’s logistics with government oversight, data integration, and staff participation so that capacity grows alongside service delivery.”

While expanding service to Haitian families through last-mile distribution, MFK’s top priority continues to be treating starving children with ready-to-use therapeutic food for severely malnourished children. MFK has fed more than one million children and mothers since its founding in 2003.