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Reuters : May 16, 2025

Exclusive: US aid cuts leave food for millions mouldering in storage

 

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Boxes of Edesia products in the warehouse

Fox News : April 24, 2025

Food for starving children piles up in Rhode Island warehouse amid cuts to USAID

 

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RUTF food packets

NPR : April 25, 2025

Where’s Plumpy’Nut? A lifesaving food for malnourished kids is caught up in U.S. cuts

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Edesia factory flying the American flag

NBC Providence : April 24, 2025

Quonset-based nonprofit Edesia payments restored, but new orders needed

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Der Spiegel Germany : April 24, 2025

‘Children are often the hardest hit’

Donald Trump is slashing development aid. Even emergency rations for starving children are no longer reaching them. Navyn Salem, who runs a specialty food company, warns of a humanitarian catastrophe.

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‘In Three Months, Half of Them Will Be Dead’

The Atlantic : April 16, 2025

‘In Three Months, Half of Them Will Be Dead’

Elon Musk promised to preserve lifesaving aid to foreign children. Then the Trump administration quietly canceled it.

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CBS Saturday Morning - child eating Edesia product

CBS Saturday Morning : March 20, 2025

CBS Reports on Edesia’s challenges as the future of American international aid evolves.

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Bipartisan effort builds to restore USAID funding to fight malnutrition abroad

Washington Examiner : April 9, 2025

Bipartisan effort builds to restore USAID funding to fight malnutrition abroad

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Rhode Island Report Podcast : April 10, 2025

R.I.’s Edesia Nutrition tries to ‘find a way’ as Trump dismantles USAID

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Navyn standing amid "super sacks" of powdered milk in the storage area at the company's North Kingstown plant.

Rhode Island PBS : April 10, 2025

Edesia looks for clarity amid chaos of Trump cuts

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Navyn Salem holding Edesia product while talking to reporter in her office

The Providence Journal : April 7, 2025

North Kingstown company bracing to lose 85% of its business as Trump dismantles USAID

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Edesia products in the warehouse with American flag

CNN : April 2, 2025

Amid USAID chaos, some humanitarian aid groups still aren’t getting paid for lifesaving programs

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Edesia factory flying the American flag

NBC Providence : March 13, 2025

“All of it translates very directly to lives lost” RI’s Edesia waits for federal aid

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Secretary of State, Marco Rubio

Providence Business News : March 10, 2025

Rubio announces termination of 83% of USAID contracts

 

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Child eating Edesia product

The Boston Globe : March 2, 2025

Musk and Pod Save America host spar online over aid program involving R.I. company

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Providence Business News : February 24, 2025

Edesia inventory is moving, though USAID funding remains delayed

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PBS Feature

PBS : November 30, 2024

PBS News Weekend Feature

 

 

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The Church and Edesia Unite

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints : August 22, 2024

The Church and Edesia Nutrition Unite to Nourish Children and Mothers

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Providence Business News : May 7, 2024

Edesia to Receive Portion of $200M to Relieve Child Hunger

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The Boston Globe : January 25, 2024

Feeding the World from Rhode Island

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Press Release : November 28, 2023

Edesia Nutrition Launches $10 million “Make Malnutrition History” Matching Campaign

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Philanthropy News Digest : November 24, 2023

Bezos Family Commits $137 Million to Address Malnutrition

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Toddler eating a bar

Press Release : November 17, 2023

Bezos Family Gives up to $137 Million to Edesia Nutrition

 

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Drew Barrymore Show : March 23, 2022

Interview and a Surprise for Edesia

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UN Security Council Meeting : March 23, 2022

Navyn Briefs United Nations Security Council

Navyn’s remarks begin at 21:34

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Eating Food

Today Show : November 12, 2021

One Mom’s Fight to Save Kids Around the World

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Navyn holding a bar

CBS Boston : May 10, 2021

New England
Living 2001: Edesia

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Power of the Peanut

The Heights : January 8, 2022

The Power Of The Peanut: Salem Tackles Malnutrition With Edesia

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Navyn Salem

Founder and CEO

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