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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 in malnourished children's lives, while encouraging physical activity here at home.
Students then earn Active Points on the MoveSpring app, using their smart phones or via manual entries. These Active Points are then converted into Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) packets. These packets save the lives of children under the age of five suffering from Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM). Activities can be fun games, friendly contests and other creative ideas, like musical chairs or a dance-off. These activities take place during a 1 or 2 week MOVE4MANA Challenge at your school!
What types of activities are tracked in the app?
Any kind of movement, physical activity or sport can be tracked. From walking, to soccer, and yoga to rock climbing. There is also a component that promotes and tracks self-care, mindfulness activities like meditation too!
What is SAM?
What is RUTF?
When young children become severely malnourished, they are nine times more likely to die compared to healthy children. Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) is a condition that presents itself as extremely low weight for height, visible and severe wasting, and/or the presence of edema. Infants and children under 5 have their upper arm circumference measured with a band called a MUAC bracelet. This measurement determines the severity of their malnourishment.
Globally, there are an estimated 14 million children suffering from SAM*.
* source UNICEF
RUTF is a fortified peanut paste that has been carefully formulated to provide a child's basic nutritional needs. It has been heralded by Doctors Without Borders as a miraculous cure for children whose malnutrition is so acute, the most likely prognosis is death. RUTF brings these children back to a healthy nutritional level within just 4-6 weeks. After the 6 weeks, 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?
Where does the RUTF Go?
Students Get Active!
Students track their physical activity on the MoveSpring app.
RUTF Earned
Activity Minutes are converted into Active Points, which in turn are converted into RUTF packets. Our generous sponsor, Food For Famine Society, donates the RUTF.
Distribution
World Vision Canada organizes the distribution of the RUTF packets to severely malnourished children under the age of 5 in developing countries.
The RUTF packets are shipped in boxes of 150. Each box saves approximately one child. We work with our partner, World Vision Canada, who has already been established as a global leader with decades worth of experienced field office locations in suffering countries.
These field offices see where the need for RUTF is the greatest ,and our Canadian
counterparts determine the shipping container schedule and destination. Our most recent shipments have been going to Somalia, Sierra Leone and Burundi.
Active Points = RUTF packets
for children in Somalia !
How many children can YOUR school save?
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5 Reasons To Host a MOVE4MANA Challenge
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Help create the next generation of thinkers, doers and philanthropists
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Learn valuable organization, technical and marketing skills
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Save the lives of innocent, malnourished children overseas
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Create a wave of change to eradicate hunger once and for all!
Our Sponsor's Global Impact
Over
26,610,000
packets shipped*
Over
177,400
children's lives saved!
