Fatima Jubril lost her husband when the militant group Boko Haram attacked their farm in northeast Nigeria last September. Fleeing her village with her four children, she found shelter in a displaced ...

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Ocean State Job Lot is helping Quonset Business Park neighbor Edesia Nutrition get thousands of portions of life-saving therapeutic paste to starving children in a war-torn region of Africa. The ...

Navyn Salem didn't have experience in building factories or food distribution when she started a non-profit, Edesia, and created the first U.S. factory to produce a life-saving packet called ...

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It's a "ready-to-use therapeutic food" that's had remarkable success in treating malnourished kids. The State Department says it's still... Fatima Jubril lost her husband when the militant group Boko ...