The National Soybean Research Laboratory international team is working on a new project in Colombia. Decades of civil strife and widespread poverty have left Colombia with alarmingly high levels of child malnutrition. Over a third of all Colombian children are anemic, while 14% of children under the age of 5 suffer from stunting. Colombia provides a new opportunity and new market for NSRL. The need for protein solutions in Colombia continues to grow, and soy can fill that ever increasing protein gap among the malnourished of the country. NSRL will collaborate to help fill Colombia's growing protein requirements by incorporating soy into local cuisines with a common theme: provide nutrition support for those who face the extreme challenges of malnutrition and chronic disease.
Our international nutrition efforts continue with projects in Kenya, Haiti and India. We are also preparing for a trip to Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua later this month. We will be working on school lunch and early childhood nutrition projects, as well as pursuing follow up efforts from the Nutrition Solutions for Central America conference we organized and facilitated in Guatemala City, Guatemala in February.
NSRL is also providing technical assistance for the collaboration between International Relief and Development (IRD) and Men Sarun Instant Noodle Factory in Cambodia to create 1,000,000 packages of specially formulated fortified noodles in Cambodia. The noodles will be protein-enriched through the integration of 10% soy flour into the standard Men Sarun noodle recipe and called Mee Bompon Sokpeap, meaning "nutritious noodles". The noodles will be distributed to nutritionally deprived areas in Cambodia and sold to institutional buyers in the humanitarian sector for distribution to their customers. The soy-enhanced instant noodle project will include new product samples for local markets to test acceptability and to determine the feasibility of a larger market launch and extensive product roll out.
Warmest regards,
Bridget
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