A New Social Venture Takes the Lead from TOMS Shoes to Fight Child HungerTwo Degrees addresses malnutrition in developing countries with a get-one, give-one sales approach.
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劳伦·沃尔特斯还是不能相信他所见证ed in the pediatric ward of a village hospital in Rwanda. As an advisor with the Boston-based nonprofit Partners in Health, he had visited impoverished and disaster-ravaged areas around the world. But in that pediatric ward he got his first up-close look at the harsh effects of malnutrition on children--many also suffering from tuberculosis, HIV or malaria.
"I had never seen somebody who was severely malnourished," Walters says. "You think, "How could this happen?'" What shocked Walters most of all was that the protocol for treating malnutrition is a simple, 500-calorie nutrition pack. So simple, yet often unavailable. The experience stayed with him.
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