VIDEO: Drew Barrymore Surprises RI-Based Nonprofit Edesia With $50K to Help Combat World Hunger

VIDEO: Drew Barrymore Surprises RI-Based Nonprofit Edesia With $50K to Help Combat World Hunger

Hollywood actress and producer Drew Barrymore -- who hosts her own daytime talk show -- stepped up to help provide $50,000 in support to Rhode Island-based nonprofit Edesia. 

Edesia’s mission is to help treat and prevent malnutrition for the world’s most vulnerable populations. In the pursuit of its vision of a world free of hunger and malnutrition, it manufactures innovative ready-to-use foods that transform 2.5 million lives each year.

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Edesia founder Navyn Salem shared the news this week. 

"I was recently interviewed in front of a live TV audience in New York City and given the opportunity to share Edesia’s work on the Drew Barrymore Show. As you may already know, Drew was a World Food Programme Ambassador and could relate to the profound and humbling experience of witnessing a humanitarian crisis firsthand," said Salem. 

"Drew surprised me twice on the show. First, with an amazingly generous check for $25,000 from our friends at Perdue Farms, the company that has for years supplied us with the vegetable oil we need to keep making 1.5 million packets of life-saving Plumpy’Nut each day," she said. 

"And second, with a personal match from her and her co-producer Chris Miller, because they were so moved by our work. $50,000 will help us reach another 1,000 severely malnourished children and we could not be more grateful," she added. 

"On behalf of the world’s hungry and malnourished, I am so thankful for the gift and this spotlight, which can only help us reach more children than ever before with the foods we make," said Salem.