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MFK teaches Haitians 'how to fish'

Meds & Food for Kids not only brings a live-saving therapeutic food product to Haiti’s starving children, but it also works with local Haitian farmers and labor to produce and package the product.

Anne Marie Mohan
Jan 14, 2011
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