Edesia is a unique non-profit organization that manufactures specialized ready-to-use foods (RUFs) that change lives. 

Each year millions of "miracle packets" leave Edesia’s Rhode Island factory and are delivered into the hands of malnourished children all over the world by humanitarian aid workers working in the hardest-to-reach and most inhospitable places on the planet.

Edesia currently employs 70 people hailing from over 23 countries.

To achieve their mission to help treat and prevent malnutrition in the world’s most vulnerable populations.

Mission
Edesia's mission is to help treat and prevent malnutrition in the world's most vulnerable populations. 

They are committed to easing the heavy burden malnutrition places on the world. They act now because the cost of inaction is too great.

Mandates

1. Produce high-quality ready-to-use foods (currently Plumpy'Nut (RUTF) ^®, Plumpy'Sup (RUSF) ^™, Plumpy'Doz^™, Enov'Nutributter^®, Enov'Mum^®) for humanitarian organizations and non-profits.
2. Collaborate on research and development to improve distribution systems and optimize the use of ready-to-use Foods.
3. Support local producers of ready-to-use foods in the developing world.
4. Engage in educational efforts and direct advocacy to raise the profile of global malnutrition in the United States.

Approach
Edesia recognizes the complexity of addressing malnutrition globally. Nutrition for young children, pregnant and breastfeeding mothers, people living with HIV/AIDS, and other vulnerable populations is part of larger and more complex problems. Addressing education, agriculture, and policy change must also be a part of the solution.

Edesia supplies product for organizations working in emergency situations as well as standard nutrition programming. In recognition that treating the most severe cases is not a permanent solution, Edesia also supplies products for and is an advocate of preventative approaches.