Edesia Nutrition, a social enterprise that produces food to fight malnutrition globally, has announced a gift of up to $137 million from the Bezos family.

The gift will enable Edesia to double its production of Plumpy’Nut—a nutrient-packed food that has a 92 percent success rate for curing severe acute malnutrition—and lower prices by expanding its facility in Rhode Island to include more storage capacity, rail access, and production lines. Edesia will also add a minimum of 50 new jobs. The funding also will help Edesia advocate for policy and protocol changes focused on preventing malnutrition, invest in new products, support research, and call on global governments to invest in sustainable and long-term approaches.

The commitment includes a $10 million matching fund to be launched on GivingTuesday, November 28.

“Ending malnutrition isn’t just a slogan. It’s our plan,” said Edesia founder and CEO Navyn Salem. “There are many problems in the world that we don’t know how to solve. Malnutrition is not one of them. We know what we need to do: Get life-saving food to children who are acutely malnourished or are at risk of becoming so....We can take these resources and mount a global malnutrition effort so that children don’t die from this preventable condition.”

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