Plumpy Nut

I read a blog of a young mother in Iowa. She has 6 children. Her youngest 2, boy and a girl twins, "The Wonder Twins" were born in Sierra Leone and recently joined the Landers Clan here in America. Their story is inspiring.

Recently, she wrote a blog that was truely inspiring to me.

And today I share it with you and today I challenge you the same way she challenged me.

After reading her recent blogpost, I read this and this, two links that she noted in her blogpost.

If you would like more information and would like to help donate, go to her blog, leave a comment and she will surely send you her address so that you can send her a check! Every single penny counts.

And I am inspired. Will you be?

Decide for yourself.

Plumpynut is a remarkably simple concoction: it is basically made of peanut butter, powdered milk, powdered sugar, and enriched with vitamins and minerals. It tastes like a peanut butter paste. It is very sweet, and because of that kids cannot get enough of it.

Sahia Ibrahim has already lost four children to malnutrition. Now her six-month-old twins, Hassana and Husseina, are malnourished and she’s worried they might die too. So she’s been coming to the hospital for Plumpynut. Hassana, at six months old, weighs only seven pounds. While that's what a newborn should weigh, the little girl has put on a pound in just a week thanks to Plumpynut.

That's what happened to Mansour Miko and Maroufee Mazoo. Less than a year old, they had stopped eating and became listless and weak -- so weak that when their mothers brought them to get Plumpynut, the nurse put them in a van and sent them straight to the hospital. Three days later however, they were smacking their lips on Plumpynut, almost ready to go home.

Have you seen kids who were on the brink of death brought back by Plumpynut?" Anderson Cooper asks. "Oh, yeah, for sure. Again and again and again and again," says Dr. Susan Shepherd, a pediatrician from Butte, Mont., runs Doctors Without Borders in Niger.