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Lowell Fuglie, director for Church World Service, West Africa, found that powdered Moringa leaves were more readily embraced by rural villagers than other dietary aids and decided to put it to the test.
After a two year pilot project in the southwest villages of Senegal, the organization recently convinced the Senegalese government to promote Moringa as part of the national diet.
In a 65 page book on the project, Fuglie described the willingness of a hospital administrator to substitute Moringa for the classical and costly methods of using whole milk powder, vegetable oil and sugar to treat malnutrition.
The administrator, a diabetic who had been drinking Moringa tea for years to control his diabetes, had been unaware of its nutritional properties.
One star of the project was a premature baby weighing only 3lbs.
5 oz at birth.
Due to her birth weight along with her mother not producing enough milk, baby Awa was not expected to live.
According to Fuglie, when mom and baby were both placed on a Moringa diet, mom started producing enough milk and baby quickly grew quite fat.