Our Beneficiaries
The Ride for World Health 2011 beneficiaries are Louie's Kids, MANA, and SOIL.
Louie's Kids
Louie's Kids is a 501(c)(3) foundation located in Charleston, South Caroline that provides multiple resources for obese children who are in need of assistance, guidance, and education to adopt a healthy lifestyle. The non-profit provides treatment from a highly skilled group of staff members and volunteers which includes physical and emotional outreach. Louie's Kids mission is fight obesity - one child at a time.
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MANA
A child dies every 6 seconds from malnutrition-related causes, and severe acute malnutrition kills 1- 2 million kids a year. R4WH Team 2012 believes that this is an under-appreciated cause of childhood morbidity and mortality worldwide. MANA is a charitable organization which seeks to alleviate the health burden on children with severe acute malnutrition. Ready to Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF), is a fortified peanut butter product that significantly reduces the number of deaths from this condition. On average, three packets/day for six weeks will revive a child, get him or her back to normal nutritive levels, and avoid a relapse in the future. In 2007, RUTF was endorsed as the standard of treatment worldwide for severe acute malnutrition by UNICEF, WHO, WFP, and the UN System Standing Committee on Nutrition. MANA manufactures and distributes the product to UNICEF and other large aid organization who get it to the public. As a relatively new organization they are setting up operations in Rwanda, working toward a sustainable model for RUTF production, and improving agricultural practices in rural Africa.
SOIL
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Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods (SOIL) is a 501(c)3 US-based non-profit organization dedicated to protecting soil resources, empowering communities and transforming wastes into resources in Haiti. SOIL promotes integrated approaches to the problems of poverty, poor public health, agricultural productivity, and environmental destruction. SOIL has been working in some of the poorest areas in Haiti since 2006 to facilitate the community-identified priority of ecological sanitation (EcoSan), where human wastes are converted into valuable fertilizer. EcoSan simultaneously tackles some of Haiti’s toughest challenges – providing improved sanitation to millions of people who would otherwise have no access to a toilet and producing thousands of gallons of fertilizer a week which is critical for agriculture and reforestation.
**Our proceeds are equally divided among the three main beneficiaries. This year, we are giving donors the option to specify the recipient organization. If you would like to specifically support Louie's Kids, MANA, or SOIL, please state the organization name in the memo field of your check or on the paypal donation form.
To see a list of our past beneficiaries and funds donated, click here.