Good for ME, good for WE

Doing good and doing well in my RI backyard

Jennie Hetzel Silbert
2 min readSep 24, 2019

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Last week I toured MeWe Nutrition in North Kingstown, Rhode Island with one of RI’s (ok, the world’s) most innovative thinkers, Navyn Salem, where we talked strategy, inclusive leadership, and motherhood. More than delivering life-saving nutrition packets to the world’s most vulnerable, MeWe nut-butters help children avoid peanut allergies, while helping cancer patients and our elderly to fortify their bodies for strength (sorry, Ensure, this tastes waaaaay better and contains less sugar).

During the tour Navyn pointed me to a photo of a little girl in Sierra Leone who recently graduated 8th grade in the very school founded by Navyn and Andrew Kamara, my Leadership Rhode Island buddy.

“We didn’t set out to build a school, but children were gathering to learn every day by this mango tree. And so we built a space for them to learn together. And then it grew.”

Talk about a wholehearted JUST DO IT mindset of solving humanity’s biggest problems.

On factory side, Navyn employs immigrants and refugees from at least 25 countries who might otherwise have trouble finding work — and whose experiences and know-how are committed to solving big problems with a can-do spirit.

Malnutrition is preventable; MeWe is on it so fewer moms have to endure the unimaginable.

HOW YOU CAN HELP: PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD — AND THE NUT-BUTTER, so MeWe can benefit even more loved ones, whether seven months old or seventy years young.

Click here to buy MeWe for your loved ones on Amazon.com

Also available at Dave’s Marketplace.

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Jennie Hetzel Silbert

Facilitator of brave conversations | Strategy & Culture Guru | Positive Deviant