Partners and Sponsors

Partners & Sponsors

Alpro N.V.

This company, based in Belgium, is Europe's leading soyfood company and specializes in soymilk and soya dairy alternatives. Since 2004, they have sponsored the work of Malnutrition Matters and, as the only corporate sponsor, have been critical in the evolution of the technology and its implementation. This is also the only sponsorship which is not tied to a particular project or region and therefore allows the development of MM's program with any technology and any project or region. This generous support has been provided without "strings" attached and is intended to reflect the corporate spirit of Alpro to benefit the poor consumers in developing countries while the company's own products and business are with the more fortunate "western" consumer. The fact that both Alpro and MM facilitate good nutrition with soy, at opposite ends of world's economic development, is an inspiration for this unique relationship. Learn more about Alpro at www.alprosoya.com.

Africare

Malnutrition Matters has worked with Africare to install VitaGoats and SoyCows in a number of African countries including: Zambia, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Cote d'Ivoire, Guinea, Mozambique, Guinea and Chad. The proposed model in each case is to install a VitaGoat or SoyCow within a community already partnered with Africare for food security and health initiatives in order to create a sustainable small business that can help nourish the community, sell inexpensive and healthy foods to the locals and create employment. The ten VitaGoats installed in Zambia have enabled the establishment of a training and technical support center. Malnutrition Matters has developed a business guide for SoyCow/VitaGoat locations, that includes modules for: weaning foods, foods designed for people living with HIV/AIDS and mango and tomato processing. Information about Africare can be found at www.africare.org.

Drinking soymilk from lunch
plates in Orissa

BISWA – Bharat Integrated Social Welfare Agency

BISWA, a large NGO with operations in Orissa and neighbouring states, has deployed one VitaGoat and will receive a second one in 2007 as part of the Donner-Child Haven project. The first pilot site installed in the non-electrified village of Antapali (near Sambalpur), is providing midday meals for more than 700 primary school children in rural Orissa and has provided employment for 5 women and 2 men. BISWA has a three-pronged focus: micro-enterprise, schools and micro-finance. They have benefited more than 100,000 people in Orissa with their programs.

Child Haven International, India

The first SoyCows ever built were installed in Child Haven homes in India in 1990 in a partnership with ProSoya, the Canadian company which designed the original systems. Eventually this led to a technology transfer to an Indian manufacturer, SSP, who could produce the systems at a lower cost. Since that beginning, many SoyCow systems have been sold in India to both entrepreneurs and NGO's. Information about Child Haven can be found at www.childhaven.ca. SSP continues to manufacture SoyCow systems.

Child Haven also sponsored the transfer of technology to manufacture the VitaGoat in India (to G.D. Machines, see below), with funding from the Donner Foundation Canada (see below), and co-sponsored the installation of the first three VitaGoat systems in India. A second phase of VitaGoat-based development is proceeding in India now, with additional installations already complete in Orissa and Maharashtra. Deployment of the new fruit and vegetable dryer expected in India is in progress.

Soymilk being produced for street
people in Delhi

Donner Canadian Foundation

The Donner Canadian Foundation has funded key projects in India and Africa. The first phase of the India project, with Child Haven International as a partner, completed in May 2006, enabled the transfer of technology to manufacture the VitaGoat and allowed installation of VitaGoats in three pilot sites. The second phase of the India project, also funded by Donner is now nearing completion, with installation of 4 additional VitaGoats and the first fruit and vegetable dryer. In Africa, the Donner Foundation is funding the Rotary Club (see below) in their Africa VitaGoat project. Five VitaGoats have been installed as part of that project, in Zambia, Uganda and South Africa.

Eden Manufacturing Pty. Ltd.

Eden Manufacturing Pty. Ltd is the SolarFlex partner in South Africa. They are also partners with Malnutrition Matters for the implementation of the VitaGoat and SoyCow food processing systems in the Southern African region. Situated in the town of Bergville in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, Eden Manufacturing is also in full partnership with REDI (Rural Economical Development Initiative). Among other initiatives, REDI supports farmers with loans and support for agricultural development.

The REDI Re-Charge High Protein Instant Porridge Drink has been jointly developed with Eden Mfg. New and emerging farmers supply Eden Manufacturing with the required maize and soy beans. The Redi Re-Charge product is a critical component to support people living with HIV/AIDS, giving them strength to allow metabolism of ARV drugs and to help prevent wasting.

http://www.edenman.co.za/Company%20Overview%20Main.htm

VitaCow operation in North Korea

Boy in Wonsan orphanage
enjoys his soymilk

First Steps, Korea

First Steps is a Canadian-based Christian humanitarian organization whose purpose is to prevent childhood malnutrition in the DPRK (North Korea) through programs which provide essential nutrients to young children. North Korea, with a population of about 23 million, has suffered acute food shortages for more than a decade. United Nations and World Food Programme reports (2003) show that between two and three million North Korean children (infants to age five) consistently fail to receive the nutrients vital to their physical and mental development. The result has seen the emergence of almost an entire generation of youngsters whose growth is stunted.

First Steps founder and Director Susan Ritchie, spent many years in Korea and China and is fluent in Korean and Mandarin. She is also a top diplomatic translator for Canadian/Korean functions and is very understanding of the political and social system in North Korea.

The First Steps program is centred on providing soymilk and other nutrition to children in various institutions. In 2003, First Steps arranged for the first VitaCows (a previous model of the SoyCow) from Malnutrition Matters. Over the following years the program grew with more and more VitaCows installed in various locations. As of June 2008, First Steps has 27 VitaCows and VitaGoats in operation reaching more than 60,000 children in orphanages, daycares and schools located in the cities of Nampo, Wonsan and Hyongjesan.

Officials remain enthusiastic about First Steps’ programs and have recently requested that new sites be added in order to help more children.

Rotary Club of Nepean - Kanata (Canada) in conjunction with the Rotary Foundation, funded the first VitaGoat in South Africa which was installed in 2005. In June 2006, Donner Canadian Foundation funded an additional Rotary Club project resulting in additional VitaGoat projects implemented in Zambia, South Africa, and Uganda (the latter in partnership with FXB, a multi-national NGO with existing projects in Uganda and other African countries).

Grinding Soybeans in Kigoma

SSP Pvt. Ltd.

The Indian partner for the fabrication of the VitaGoat and SoyCow is SSP Pvt. Ltd., based in Faridabad near Delhi. They produce a large variety of food and pharmaceutical processing equipment. For more than fifteen years they have been working with Malnutrition Matters or its principals, for the production of small scale soymilk processing systems such as the SoyCow and VitaGoat. Recently their subsidiary G.D. Machines, who fabricated the equipment for Malnutrition Matters, was absorbed in to the main company. SSP has been operating since 1977 and now employs over 400 people at various facilities in India.

UNIDO

The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) has partnered with Malnutrition Matters to implement two pilot VitaGoat projects in Tanzania (completed in April 2007). These projects are in the Tanga area (north of Dar es Salaam), and in Kigoma in the west of Tanzania. The former features fruit and vegetable processing, while the latter includes a broad range of foods including soy.

WISHH

Malnutrition Matters has been working with WISHH (World Initiative for Soy in Human Health) since 2001. They co-sponsored the VitaCow program implemented with the NGO Africare (see above). WISHH has also facilitated numerous initiatives with MM including workshops at the University of Illinois and conferences and workshops in various countries around the world. The current focus of the partnership with WISHH is the southern African region and the program called SISA (Soy in Southern Africa Alliance).

Information about WISHH's activities can be found at www.wishh.org

WORLD BANK DEVELOPMENT MARKETPLACE

The World Bank Development Marketplace is a competitive grant program of the World Bank that funds innovative, small-scale development projects that deliver results and have the potential to be expanded or replicated. Funding is provided on a 50/50 basis by the World Bank and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Malnutrition Matters was awarded funding for its ‘Rural Micro-enterprise for Supplemental Nutrition in Orissa’ project, as one of 22 winners of the 2007 competition (see the ‘Projects in Asia’ page for more information on this project). For more information on the World Bank Development Marketplace:

http://www.worldbank.org/developmentmarketplace

YES Bank

YES Bank is one of the newer, dynamic banks in India. YES Bank’s Corporate Social Responsibility division, Responsible Banking, provides facilitation services to Malnutrition Matters to help promote MM’s approach to alleviate malnutrition in rural areas of India using sustainable micro-enterprise. YES Bank provides non-financial support to help introduce MM to various government agencies and private concerns in India, with a current focus on Maharashtra, Delhi and Madhya Pradesh. YES Bank, with a team experienced in development projects and approaches, actively promotes and help’s shape MM’s agenda to best meet the challenges faced in India.

http://www.yesbank.in

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	Partners & Sponsors Alpro N.V. This company, based in Belgium, is Europe's leading soyfood company and specializes in soymilk and soya dairy alternatives. Since 2004, they have sponsored the work of Malnutrition Matters and, as the only corporate sponsor, have been critical in the evolution of the technology and its implementation. This is also the only sponsorship which is not tied to a particular project or region and therefore allows the development of MM's program with any technology and any project or region. This generous support has been provided without "strings" attached and is intended to reflect the corporate spirit of Alpro to benefit the poor consumers in developing countries while the company's own products and business are with the more fortunate "western" consumer. The fact that both Alpro and MM facilitate good nutrition with soy, at opposite ends of world's economic development, is an inspiration for this unique relationship. Learn more about Alpro at www.alprosoya.com. Africare Malnutrition Matters has worked with Africare to install VitaGoats and SoyCows in a number of African countries including: Zambia, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Cote d'Ivoire, Guinea, Mozambique, Guinea and Chad. The proposed model in each case is to install a VitaGoat or SoyCow within a community already partnered with Africare for food security and health initiatives in order to create a sustainable small business that can help nourish the community, sell inexpensive and healthy foods to the locals and create employment. The ten VitaGoats installed in Zambia have enabled the establishment of a training and technical support center. Malnutrition Matters has developed a business guide for SoyCow/VitaGoat locations, that includes modules for: weaning foods, foods designed for people living with HIV/AIDS and mango and tomato processing. Information about Africare can be found at www.africare.org.
Drinking soymilk from lunch plates in Orissa	BISWA – Bharat Integrated Social Welfare Agency BISWA, a large NGO with operations in Orissa and neighbouring states, has deployed one VitaGoat and will receive a second one in 2007 as part of the Donner-Child Haven project. The first pilot site installed in the non-electrified village of Antapali (near Sambalpur), is providing midday meals for more than 700 primary school children in rural Orissa and has provided employment for 5 women and 2 men. BISWA has a three-pronged focus: micro-enterprise, schools and micro-finance. They have benefited more than 100,000 people in Orissa with their programs.
	Child Haven International, India The first SoyCows ever built were installed in Child Haven homes in India in 1990 in a partnership with ProSoya, the Canadian company which designed the original systems. Eventually this led to a technology transfer to an Indian manufacturer, SSP, who could produce the systems at a lower cost. Since that beginning, many SoyCow systems have been sold in India to both entrepreneurs and NGO's. Information about Child Haven can be found at www.childhaven.ca. SSP continues to manufacture SoyCow systems. Child Haven also sponsored the transfer of technology to manufacture the VitaGoat in India (to G.D. Machines, see below), with funding from the Donner Foundation Canada (see below), and co-sponsored the installation of the first three VitaGoat systems in India. A second phase of VitaGoat-based development is proceeding in India now, with additional installations already complete in Orissa and Maharashtra. Deployment of the new fruit and vegetable dryer expected in India is in progress.
Soymilk being produced for street people in Delhi	Donner Canadian Foundation The Donner Canadian Foundation has funded key projects in India and Africa. The first phase of the India project, with Child Haven International as a partner, completed in May 2006, enabled the transfer of technology to manufacture the VitaGoat and allowed installation of VitaGoats in three pilot sites. The second phase of the India project, also funded by Donner is now nearing completion, with installation of 4 additional VitaGoats and the first fruit and vegetable dryer. In Africa, the Donner Foundation is funding the Rotary Club (see below) in their Africa VitaGoat project. Five VitaGoats have been installed as part of that project, in Zambia, Uganda and South Africa. Eden Manufacturing Pty. Ltd. Eden Manufacturing Pty. Ltd is the SolarFlex partner in South Africa. They are also partners with Malnutrition Matters for the implementation of the VitaGoat and SoyCow food processing systems in the Southern African region. Situated in the town of Bergville in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, Eden Manufacturing is also in full partnership with REDI (Rural Economical Development Initiative). Among other initiatives, REDI supports farmers with loans and support for agricultural development. The REDI Re-Charge High Protein Instant Porridge Drink has been jointly developed with Eden Mfg. New and emerging farmers supply Eden Manufacturing with the required maize and soy beans. The Redi Re-Charge product is a critical component to support people living with HIV/AIDS, giving them strength to allow metabolism of ARV drugs and to help prevent wasting. http://www.edenman.co.za/Company%20Overview%20Main.htm
VitaCow operation in North Korea Boy in Wonsan orphanage enjoys his soymilk	First Steps, Korea First Steps is a Canadian-based Christian humanitarian organization whose purpose is to prevent childhood malnutrition in the DPRK (North Korea) through programs which provide essential nutrients to young children. North Korea, with a population of about 23 million, has suffered acute food shortages for more than a decade. United Nations and World Food Programme reports (2003) show that between two and three million North Korean children (infants to age five) consistently fail to receive the nutrients vital to their physical and mental development. The result has seen the emergence of almost an entire generation of youngsters whose growth is stunted. First Steps founder and Director Susan Ritchie, spent many years in Korea and China and is fluent in Korean and Mandarin. She is also a top diplomatic translator for Canadian/Korean functions and is very understanding of the political and social system in North Korea. The First Steps program is centred on providing soymilk and other nutrition to children in various institutions. In 2003, First Steps arranged for the first VitaCows (a previous model of the SoyCow) from Malnutrition Matters. Over the following years the program grew with more and more VitaCows installed in various locations. As of June 2008, First Steps has 27 VitaCows and VitaGoats in operation reaching more than 60,000 children in orphanages, daycares and schools located in the cities of Nampo, Wonsan and Hyongjesan. Officials remain enthusiastic about First Steps’ programs and have recently requested that new sites be added in order to help more children.
	Rotary Club of Nepean - Kanata (Canada) in conjunction with the Rotary Foundation, funded the first VitaGoat in South Africa which was installed in 2005. In June 2006, Donner Canadian Foundation funded an additional Rotary Club project resulting in additional VitaGoat projects implemented in Zambia, South Africa, and Uganda (the latter in partnership with FXB, a multi-national NGO with existing projects in Uganda and other African countries).
Grinding Soybeans in Kigoma	SSP Pvt. Ltd. The Indian partner for the fabrication of the VitaGoat and SoyCow is SSP Pvt. Ltd., based in Faridabad near Delhi. They produce a large variety of food and pharmaceutical processing equipment. For more than fifteen years they have been working with Malnutrition Matters or its principals, for the production of small scale soymilk processing systems such as the SoyCow and VitaGoat. Recently their subsidiary G.D. Machines, who fabricated the equipment for Malnutrition Matters, was absorbed in to the main company. SSP has been operating since 1977 and now employs over 400 people at various facilities in India. UNIDO The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) has partnered with Malnutrition Matters to implement two pilot VitaGoat projects in Tanzania (completed in April 2007). These projects are in the Tanga area (north of Dar es Salaam), and in Kigoma in the west of Tanzania. The former features fruit and vegetable processing, while the latter includes a broad range of foods including soy.
	WISHH Malnutrition Matters has been working with WISHH (World Initiative for Soy in Human Health) since 2001. They co-sponsored the VitaCow program implemented with the NGO Africare (see above). WISHH has also facilitated numerous initiatives with MM including workshops at the University of Illinois and conferences and workshops in various countries around the world. The current focus of the partnership with WISHH is the southern African region and the program called SISA (Soy in Southern Africa Alliance). Information about WISHH's activities can be found at www.wishh.org
	WORLD BANK DEVELOPMENT MARKETPLACE The World Bank Development Marketplace is a competitive grant program of the World Bank that funds innovative, small-scale development projects that deliver results and have the potential to be expanded or replicated. Funding is provided on a 50/50 basis by the World Bank and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Malnutrition Matters was awarded funding for its ‘Rural Micro-enterprise for Supplemental Nutrition in Orissa’ project, as one of 22 winners of the 2007 competition (see the ‘Projects in Asia’ page for more information on this project). For more information on the World Bank Development Marketplace: http://www.worldbank.org/developmentmarketplace
	YES Bank YES Bank is one of the newer, dynamic banks in India. YES Bank’s Corporate Social Responsibility division, Responsible Banking, provides facilitation services to Malnutrition Matters to help promote MM’s approach to alleviate malnutrition in rural areas of India using sustainable micro-enterprise. YES Bank provides non-financial support to help introduce MM to various government agencies and private concerns in India, with a current focus on Maharashtra, Delhi and Madhya Pradesh. YES Bank, with a team experienced in development projects and approaches, actively promotes and help’s shape MM’s agenda to best meet the challenges faced in India. http://www.yesbank.in
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