Every Step You Take
Saves a Child's Life
MOVE4MANA converts your physical activity into
Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF)
packets that help children under the age of 5 suffering from
Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM).
What is MOVE4MANA?
MOVE4MANA is a student-led initiative that educates high school and university students about malnourished children in developing countries. Students host a MOVE4MANA Challenge that inspires their peers to make a change while encouraging physical activity at home.
Students earn Active Points on the MoveSpring app using their smartphones. These points convert into Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) packets that save children's lives. Activities can be fun games, sporting events, friendly contests, dance-offs, and more during a 1 or 2 week challenge!
What is SAM?
Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) is a condition that presents as extremely low weight for height, visible and severe wasting, and/or the presence of edema. Children suffering from SAM are nine times more likely to die compared to healthy children.
Infants and children under 5 have their upper arm circumference measured with a MUAC bracelet to determine the severity of their malnourishment.
What is RUTF?
Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) is a fortified peanut paste carefully formulated to provide a child's basic nutritional needs. Heralded by Doctors Without Borders as a miraculous cure, RUTF brings children back to healthy nutritional levels within just 4-6 weeks.
After 6 weeks of treatment, the majority of these children do not ever slip backwards to that brink, ever again. Our RUTF is manufactured by our partner MANA Nutrition in Georgia, USA.
How Does MOVE4MANA Work?
Students Get Active
Track physical activity on the MoveSpring app: walking, soccer, yoga, meditation, gardening and more! Activity minutes convert to Active Points, which become life-saving RUTF packets for ill children.
RUTF Earned
The RUTF is manufactured by MANA Nutrition and then purchased by our sponsor, Food For Famine Society. They then connect with World Vision Canada for shipping and logistics.
Distribution
World Vision Canada organizes and distributes the RUTF to severely malnourished children under the age of 5 in countries like Somalia, Sierra Leone, and Burundi.
Where Does the RUTF Go?
RUTF packets are shipped in boxes of 150. Each box saves approximately one child. We work with World Vision Canada, a global leader with decades of experienced field offices.
5 Reasons to Host a Challenge
Save Children's Lives
Every Active Point converts to RUTF packets that directly save children under five suffering from SAM.
Promote Wellness
Encourage healthy activity and mindfulness — from walking and sports to yoga and meditation.
Build Leadership Skills
Learn valuable organization, technical, and marketing skills that stand out on your resume.
Build Community
Bring together students, faculty, and staff around a shared purpose that transcends borders.
Create Changemakers
Help create the next generation of thinkers, doers, and philanthropists who eradicate hunger.
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