Mark Slagle and Alex Cox are the men behind MANA Nutrition’s Manabago project.
Through a partnership with MANA Nutrition, the team has helped raise money and provide sustenance for malnourished people across the globe.
However, Slagle and Cox encountered an unfortunate setback when their 1971 Winnebago exploded on the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, Calif., leaving the philanthropic duo car-less and craving a new start.
That new start came with a rather “nutty” idea called Good Spread Peanut Butter.
Good Spread Peanut Butter is made from essential vitamins blended with organic honey and natural sea salt. With three servings of MANA’s peanut butter-based therapeutic food each day, a child on the brink of death can be revived in four to six weeks.
“The dream and ultimate goal of Good Spread is to provide more therapeutic food to more severely malnourished kids,” Slagle said.
Slagle and Cox partnered with MANA Nutrition once again to launch Good Spread Peanut Butter. In fact, MANA let Slagle and Cox use the company’s factory in South Georgia to produce their product.
World Vision and other organizations have also partnered with MANA to help provide food for needy children.
To help raise money for the Good Spread cause, Slagle and Cox established a website called Indiegogo to try and raise $65,000 in two weeks – just enough to help make 100,000 packets of Good Spread to get the project started.
“We wanted something to give people so they wouldn’t just donate money to a cause and then turn around and forget about it all the next day,” Cox said. “We think a creative and delicious way to do that is by turning America’s craving for an awesome, health snack into a life-saving therapeutic food for the malnourished world.”
As of Nov. 5, the Good Spread campaign has raised $69,518, exceeding the targeted amount by $4,518. Slagle said students played an essential role in raising enough money for Good Spread to become a reality, and they would not have gotten far without student advocacy and involvement.
To learn more about the Good Spread project, visit http://www.indiegogo.com/goodspread or take a look at the video below.