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Add Passion and StirEdesia’s Navyn Salem Defines HumanityNavyn Salem, founder and CEO of the malnutrition social enterprise Edesia, discusses our shared humanity in caring for children all over the world. Edesia produces fortified, peanut-based products like Plumpy'Nut for humanitarian agencies like UNICEF, World Food Programme, and other NGOs working in emergency and conflict zones. “We feed children everywhere because that's what humanity is, and we do not want to lose our humanity. We are smart enough. We have enough resources. We're creative and innovative enough to feed every child on planet Earth,” Salem asserts. Edesia has been impacted by Trump Administration decisions arou...
2025-09-0342 min
Voices to End HungerAgainst the Odds – Treating Severe Child MalnutritionThe world is in the midst of the worst food crisis in decades, with 750 million people facing food insecurity, severe hunger, and even famine conditions impacting places across the globe. Nobody is more seriously impacted than children during their early formative years. Alliance to End Hunger president Eric Mitchell guest hosts a discussion with leaders from two organizations facing the issue head on: Navyn Salem, Founder and CEO of Edesia Nutrition and Chris Greene, CEO of Meds & Food for Kids in Haiti. Together, the group will discuss the state of child malnutrition, the proven effectiveness of ready-to-use therapeutic foods...
2025-05-0543 min
Rhode Island ReportEdesia will 'find a way' to keep feeding starving childrenA Rhode Island company that provides life-saving nutrition to children around the world is getting caught up in the Trump administration’s dismantling of the US Agency for International Development.Edesia Nutrition has been on a roller coaster of canceled contracts and late payments. Founder and CEO Navyn Salem says every hour the plant is closed means 415 children aren’t getting the food they need. "We must be the problem solvers in this equation," she says. She joins host Ed Fitzpatrick to talk about what comes next. Tips and ideas? Email us at rinews@globe.com.See...
2025-04-1018 min
Crazy Amazing HumansFighting Hunger, Changing Lives; Navyn Salem and EdesiaIt's unimaginable, but each year about 45 million children worldwide suffer from severe malnutrition — that's nearly one in three children under the age of five. Thankfully, there is hope! We're thrilled to introduce our guest, Navyn Salem, founder and CEO of Edesia. Edesia, a Rhode Island-based nonprofit, is on a mission to tackle this global crisis, having already saved over 25 million lives in more than 65 countries. Her journey began with a powerful realization while watching 60 Minutes, where she saw firsthand the devastating effects of malnutrition—a preventable condition that affects millions of children worldwide. Inspired by her father's Tanz...
2024-11-1340 min
Good MvmtEp.07 - Tackling Global MalnutritionAround the globe, 45 million children under five are acutely malnourished, and 14 million of those are severely malnourished. Navyn Salem and the team over at Edesia Nutrition have not only saved 23 million lives, they helped 4.9 million, just in 2023. Edesia has been a social enterprise before it even became a term and the episode reinforces the advantage social enterprise can have in solving some of the world’s biggest problems.
Interested in working at Edesia? The good news, they are hiring! Check out their positions here - https://www.edesianutrition.org/join-the-team/
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2024-04-2730 min
Rhode Island PBS WeeklyApril 14, 2024 - Nutrition Mission / Steel Pan / Tik Tok FamousOn this episode, we re-introduce you to a Rhode Island woman, Navyn Salem who is on a worldwide mission to save little children from malnutrition. Then, in our continuing My Take series, local steel pan musician Becky Bass talks about her artistic journey. Finally, we take another look at the work of influencer Ian Brownhill.
2024-04-1523 minRhode Island ReportFeeding the world from Rhode IslandEdesia Nutrition, a North Kingstown nonprofit that feeds malnourished children around the globe, got a big boost last year when the Bezos family made a donation worth nearly $140 million. Edesia founder and CEO Navyn Salem joins us to talk about how the money will help them serve many more kids, at a time when war and climate change are threatening children like never before. Tips and ideas? Email us at rinews@globe.com.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
2024-01-2519 min
The Mentor FilesS3 E3: Navyn Salem - Founder of Edesia Nutrition On Tackling Global Malnutrition and Balancing MotherhoodIn this deeply impactful episode of The Mentor Files, host Monica Royer sits down with Navyn Salem, the founder of Edesia Nutrition, a non-profit organization on a mission to end malnutrition globally. Navyn shares her journey from being a mom of four to spearheading a global initiative that produces life-saving food products for malnourished children. Tune in to hear Navyn's story of resilience, innovation, and her vision of a world where every child has access to the nutrition they need to thrive.In this episode:Navyn Salem shares her inspiration for starting Edesia Nutrition...
2023-11-2138 minRhode Island PBS WeeklyNovember 12, 2023 - Nutrition Mission / TikTok Famous/ Anti-Graffiti VigilantesOn this episode, Pamela Watts introduces us to Barrington resident Navyn Salem and her worldwide mission to save millions of children from starvation. Then, Michelle San Miguel interviews a Rhode Island content creator who reveals how he makes a living on social media. Finally, they call themselves Anti-Graffiti Vigilantes and they are determined to tackle one defaced rock at time and preserve Rhode Island’s beautiful natural resources. Pamela Watts has their story.
2023-11-1324 min
Don't Stop Us Now AI EditionTogether We Can Make History - Navyn SalemOur guest this week made such a big impression on us and listeners when she was on the show more than 4 years ago that we’re really excited to welcome her back for our last episode of the year. Navyn Salem is Founder and CEO of a non-profit social enterprise called Edesia. Navyn founded Edesia more than ten years ago to help end global malnutrition and set about building a factory in Rhode Island in the USA to produce lifesaving nutritional products for humanitarian agencies. Edesia has already reached over 17 million children in 62 countries. An...
2022-12-2321 min
The Firestarter PodcastNavyn Salem on a Mission to End Hunger and Malnutrition, and Leading by ExampleWelcome to The Firestarter Podcast—people, ideas and conversations that move us forward. It’s your host Willa Kammerer’s business and passion to make the world a better place through storytelling, which is why we’re here today. We’ll talk to mission-driven entrepreneurs, philanthropists, investors, thought leaders, and experts on the front lines of the world’s most pressing issues about designing and thriving careers of impact.Our guest today is Navyn Salem, the Founder and CEO of Edesia, a nonprofit social enterprise with a mission to treat and prevent malnutrition in the world’s most vulnerabl...
2021-12-0152 min
Don't Stop Us Now AI EditionFuture Proof Me - Raising GirlsThis week’s mini episode is a tribute to all parents and everything they do for their children, particularly when they raise their daughters and sons to believe that women can be CEOs, adventurers and innovators. When we thought of all that parents do, we were reminded of our conversation with the wonderful social entrepreneur Navyn Salem who has 4 daughters. She started a social business called Edesia Nutrition aiming to end malnutrition in the world. Edesia produces a life saving formulation called Plumpy Nut which is given to very malnourished and unwell children in d...
2021-09-1408 min
Don't Stop Us Now AI EditionFuture Proof Me - Advice on Starting your IdeaThis week’s Future Proof Me mini episode shares some great advice if you’re contemplating starting your own business or side hustle.We were so inspired by social enterprise founder Navyn Salem when we had her on the show a year or so ago. She told us how, when she had the idea to set up a social enterprise to tackle malnutrition in children in developing countries, everyone told her it couldn’t be done. She decided she would prove the naysayers wrong and, today, her organisation Edesia has made an incredible impact...
2020-09-2908 min
We'll Have What She's HavingEp4 Ending Peanut Allergies & Malnutrition w/ Navyn Salem of MeWe | WOMANBOSSNavyn founded MeWe in close relation with her non-profit Edesia, which creates fortified nut butters that are helping solve acute malnutrition in children all over the world. MeWe looks to introduce peanuts to young children in a safe and delicious way which may help avert nut allergies. Proceeds from MeWe go back to supporting Edesia’s community mission.
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2020-03-0900 min
Don't Stop Us Now AI EditionNavyn Salem – Because She Can’t Wait . . .Navyn Salem was told over and over that with no previous relevant experience she’d never succeed. Her vision was to build a factory to manufacture a food supplement called “Plumpy Nut” that could save the lives of children with malnutrition in the developing world.Fortunately for the world, she chose to ignore all the pessimistic advice and forged ahead to set up her not for profit, Edesia Nutrition.In the past 11 years and a state-of-the-art factory later, Navyn and her team at Edesia have helped 7 million malnourished children in 51 countries. It hasn’t been easy but Navyn is not someone...
2018-10-2335 min