Dive Summary:
- Hershey is partnering with Project Peanut Butter to build and operate a peanut processing plant in Ghana that will make highly nutritious peanut products to be distributed to malnourished children in the small African country.
- Hershey, who sources about 90% of their cocoa from Ghana, looks at this as a way to give back to a nation it so heavily relies on.
- The peanut product was developed by Project Peanut Butter as a simple, cost effective and extremely nourishing product that, when receiving funding from a corporation like Hershey, is ready to be distributed throughout the population.
From the article:
"Without Hershey, we would have to raise all the money ourselves, which would take two or three years, minimum," said Mardi Manary, administrator for Project Peanut Butter, which based in the St. Louis suburb of Maplewood, Mo. "They stepped in and offered to help with help finding land, also, technical services for this factory — and money."
She said the candy maker's support was key to establishing a workable distribution system, allowing for "a complete program, instead of just dumping it at the dock and hoping Doctors without Borders can distribute it."
