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Feeding Children Against The Odds: Dr. Anany Prosper Of CNP Haiti

WUTC | By Ray Bassett

Published November 19, 2024 at 11:10 PM EST

Aid workers from CNP Haiti, delivering food on the scene.

(Aired Weds 11/13/24)

For more than twenty-five years, a nonprofit based here in Chattanooga and the Tennessee Valley has helped women and families to break the cycle of malnutrition in southern Haiti.

Over the years, the work of the Children’s Nutrition Program of Haiti has endured crisis after crisis, challenge after challenge: earthquakes, gang violence, severe and chronic political instability.

Last month, I spoke with Dr. Anany Prosper, Country Director of CNP Haiti.