ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - A local nonprofit looking to combat world hunger and spread the gospel is opening a new production facility in Albany.

“Peanut Better is a nonprofit organization that I had a vision for after many medical mission trips. I was seeing so many kids that were malnourished,” said Dr. Alan Medley, CEO & Founder of Peanut Better. “It’s fortified peanut butter, and so you can think of it as peanut butter that has higher calories, a higher protein content, and it’s fortified with vitamins and minerals.”

It only takes about a spatula filled of ‘Peanut Better’ to feed a malnourished child. With this new production facility opening up in Albany, they’re going to be able to spread ‘Peanut Better’ to more children around the world.

Right now productions are currently overseas in rural Kenya. Steve Nix is the Production Manager for Peanut Better Albany. He says that moving the production operations here will greatly enhance their production capabilities.

“By producing here, it’ll be hands on. We’re in a more safe, secure environment and we’ve got better control over the product that’s being produced. And we can produce more of it here,” said Steve Nix. “We can get more into a mass production type situation here, controlling what we’re producing and prepping it properly for export out of the country. It’s all a matter of again the hands-on control.”

They hope the facility will be open in roughly six weeks.

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