by Garry Wiley | Oct 25, 2017 | News
Having produced 8.5 million sachets of ready-to-use therapeutic food product in 2016 (enough to treat approximately 80,000 children suffering from severe acute malnutrition) and after launching a new ready-to-use complementary food line in November 2016 to tackle chronic malnutrition, VALID Nutrition is now seeking grant funding to complement loan funding and expedite our move to a new state-of-the-art, purpose built manufacturing facility. This in turn will enable the expansion of local production capacity to meet both regional and local demand.
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by Garry Wiley | Oct 25, 2017 | News
From 6th- 8th October, Ashoka Ireland hosted their 4th Annual Community Retreat. This was a gathering of Ireland’s Ashoka Fellows (including our own Dr Steve Collins), the Irish Ashoka Support Network members, advisors and the Irish Team, and was held on the grounds of Burrishoole, Co Mayo. The workshops involved an analysis of the more unique social entrepreneurial challenges facing Ashoka Fellows both in Ireland and in a global context, and put to work the collective experience of everyone in attendance.
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by Garry Wiley | Nov 28, 2016 | News
VALID Nutrition is pleased to announce that on Friday 18th November, the Honourable Dr Peter Kumpalume, MP and Minister for Health, Malawi, formally launched our new Ready-to-Use Complementary Food (RUCF also called small quantity lipid-based nutrient supplement, LNS-SQ) in Lilongwe. Read more
by Garry Wiley | Jun 14, 2016 | News
Steve Collins of VALID presents his vision on the role Social Business can play to innovate and deliver market based solutions to address chronic malnutrition. This condition, often referred to as “hidden hunger” is preventing millions of children (one in every four) in developing countries from reaching their full potential.
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by Garry Wiley | Mar 24, 2016 | News
With a view to extending our product range in Malawi and having received generous grant support from USAID’s Southern Africa Trade Hub (SATH), VALID’s local Factory is now in the process of commissioning a Ready-to-Use Complementary Food (RUCF) pack-filling machine. RUCFs are designed to prevent Chronic Malnutrition which affects 43% of all children in Malawi and on average over 40% of all children in sub Saharan Africa. We are working with WFP on a new RUCF product specification so that we can commence production trials as soon as possible. With support from Irish Aid and the Department of Agriculture, VALID is also intending to undertake a pilot project in Malawi using RUCF that will initiate the process of changing how children affected by Chronic Malnutrition are reached – using a customer and market driven approach as we endeavour to unlock this potentially massive market. View this link for more information.
by Garry Wiley | Mar 23, 2016 | News
The Global Innovation Fund (GIF) recently announced their first ever “investments” (grants, convertible loans or equity stakes), in eight projects ranging from £30,000 to £1.5 million. The announcement included an investment of £120,000 in VALID Nutrition’s development of an innovative SMS-RUTF product. VALID was the only grant recipient directly involved in nutrition and full details are available on the GIF website
