Rowan Simpson

I’m currently in Nepal with a group from Medicine Mondiale.  

One of the places we’ve visited is the factory they are currently building, where they will produce an infant protein formula.

This is a crazy part of the world, so there are some interesting stories I will talk more about here once I’m back to a more reliable internet connection.

In the meantime, here is a short video they have put together as part of their entry in Google’s Project 10¹⁰⁰…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHTmUcTzZFI

From the voice over…

“Every year, more than five million infants die of protein energy malnutrition, because their bodies don’t have the energy to digest essential protein-rich food.

ProteinForte is a revolutionary pre-digested high energy chicken protein formula.

Made from unwanted by-products from the developed world, it costs only 20 cents and fits in a sachet.

And it could reduce global infant deaths by up to 75%.

The world can’t march forward with an empty stomach.”

Some very simple things you can do to be part of this:

• Watch the video
• Add your comments of support on YouTube
• Vote for this project (okay, this only applies if you’re a Google employee at the moment - the rest of us: if you know somebody who works at Google, tell them to vote for this project)
• Send the link to your friends
• Blog about it

Easy!

I’m sure all of your help will be much appreciated.

Related posts:

• Medicine Mondiale’s sexy science