NutriAid International

What NutriAid International does

NutriAid International ETS is an Italian non-profit humanitarian organization headquartered in Turin, Italy, founded around 1995-1996 with approximately 10 employees. The organization fights child malnutrition and food insecurity in four African countries — Senegal (since 2010), Madagascar (since 2010), Burkina Faso (since 2016), and Kenya (since 2026) — plus domestic programs serving migrant children in Italy. Its core technical capability is the production of hyper-protein enriched flours from locally sourced millet, maize, rice, and peanuts, blended using proprietary formulations designed to restore normal weight in malnourished children within weeks. The organization also deploys digital vaccination databases in Madagascar health centers, solar-powered 50-ton cold storage infrastructure at the port of Joal (Senegal), and marine biological monitoring systems in partnership with the Senegalese Oceanographic Research Centre.

NutriAid operates through direct field implementation rather than intermediaries, with a network of 63 trained Community Health Agents serving as the frontline healthcare touchpoint for over 27,000 inhabitants in the municipality of Loul Sessène, Senegal. Other beneficiary segments include pregnant and lactating women, small-scale farmers in Burkina Faso, fishing communities in Joal-Fadiouth, and migrant children in Turin. The organization is funded through private donations (including 5x1000 Italian tax designation), corporate fundraising, the Italian 8x1000 IRPEF state allocation, and institutional grants from foundations such as Fondazione Prosolidar ETS. Leadership is provided by Director General Antonella Demarchi and Founding Member Costanzo Bellando, supported by country coordinators in Senegal and Madagascar.

Name

NutriAid International

Legal name

NutriAid International ETS

Website

https://nutriaid.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1995

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

NutriAid International is an Italian non-profit humanitarian organization that fights child malnutrition across Senegal, Madagascar, Burkina Faso, and Kenya by producing enriched therapeutic flours from local grains, training community health agents, and building healthcare and food-preservation infrastructure for vulnerable mothers and children.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Humanitarian Aid Services

NAICS

Community Food Services (624210), Community Food and Housing, and Emergency and Other Relief Services (6242)

SIC

Grain Mill Products (2040)

akta.pro primary industry

Nutrition-Specific Interventions (Micronutrients, Supplementation, Fortification) (BPADAJAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems (Fair Trade, Food Access, Regenerative) (BPAGALAD), Agriculture & Food Security Development (BPAGABAB), Nutrition & Population Health Integration (MCH Nutrition, Micronutrients) (BPADAIAF), Nutrition & Food Security (Global Health) NGOs (HLAJAKAH)

Keywords

• Humanitarian aid services
• Child malnutrition programs
• Nutritional rehabilitation
• Food security projects
• Community health training

Headquarters

HQ city

Turin

HQ country

Italy

HQ region

Europe

Offices7 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Others, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Private Donations: Individual donors contribute through the website, bank transfers, postal payments, and the Italian 5x1000 tax designation (Tax Code: 97567050014). Monthly donation programs and one-time gifts support operational activities.
2. Corporate Fundraising: Companies engage through cause-related marketing, event sponsorship, employee awareness campaigns, and group fundraising activities. Contact: [email protected]
3. Institutional Funding (Fondazione Prosolidar): Funding from Fondazione Prosolidar ETS, a philanthropy organization established within the banking sector, supporting projects in Italy and abroad for social justice, inclusion, and sustainable development.
4. Italian State Funding (8x1000 IRPEF): Projects funded by the Italian Presidency of the Council of Ministers through the 8x1000 IRPEF quota directed to the state, including Hi-Tech malnutrition programs in Senegal and Kenya.
5. Public Contributions Reporting: NutriAid receives funds from public administration entities and other organizations for specific projects. The organization publishes annual reporting of public contributions received.

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels10 records

Core offering

NutriAid International is a humanitarian non-profit that fights child malnutrition and food insecurity through field-implemented programs in Africa and Italy. It produces high-protein enriched flours from locally sourced millet, maize, rice, and peanuts for nutritional rehabilitation of malnourished children, while also delivering community health agent training, pediatric healthcare infrastructure (including a unit under construction at Near Me Hospital in Loul Sessène, Senegal), agricultural support for small-scale farmers, and solar-powered cold storage and marine monitoring for fishing communities.

Product overview

NutriAid International is a non-profit humanitarian organization (ETS) focused on fighting child malnutrition and food insecurity. Rather than a technology product company, NutriAid operates humanitarian programs and projects including: nutritional rehabilitation through production of enriched flours from local agricultural products (millet, maize, rice, peanuts) for treating malnourished children; construction and support of pediatric healthcare facilities; nutritional screening and community health agent training programs; fishing industry support projects including cold storage infrastructure; and food security initiatives across Africa. The organization does not offer software products, platforms, or technology services.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Nutritional Rehabilitation Program (Enriched Flour Treatment)

Quantifiable outcome

• Enriched flour programs restore normal weight in malnourished children within a few weeks
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Twelve partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Italian Red Cross (Croce Rossa Italiana)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Italian Red Cross collaborates with NutriAid and SICUPP to provide pediatric care for migrant children in the Turin territory. NutriAid contributes medical assistance, maternal health awareness, and supply distribution (baby food, clothes, toys, hygiene products) as part of the joint initiative.
• SICUPP (Società Italiana di Cure Primarie Pediatriche)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSICUPP (Italian Society of Paediatric Primary Care) partners with NutriAid and the Italian Red Cross on pediatric care programs for migrant children in Turin, contributing clinical expertise in primary pediatric care.
• Rainbow4AfricaminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in the P.I.P.A. (Emergency Pediatric Intervention in the Alps) project, providing humanitarian assistance to children in transit along the Italy-France border in Alta Val di Susa.
• MEDU – Médecins pour les Droits HumainsminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMedical human rights organization partnering in the P.I.P.A. project for pediatric assistance to migrants in Alta Val di Susa.
• Croce Rossa Italiana – Comitato di SusaminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerLocal committee of the Italian Red Cross partnering in the P.I.P.A. project for emergency pediatric care at the Italy-France border.
• Talità Kum Budrola onlusminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerItalian non-profit organization partnering in the P.I.P.A. project for humanitarian assistance to migrant children in Alta Val di Susa.
• Diacre VaudoisminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in the P.I.P.A. project for emergency pediatric intervention in the Alpine border region.
• Senegalese Oceanographic Research CentrecoreTechnology or IntegrationPartner in the Sardinegal project for biological missions off the Senegalese coast, conducting environmental assessments and seabed sediment sampling for laboratory analysis to understand the impact of artisanal fishing on marine fauna.
• Directorate of Seabed Management (Direction de la Gestion des Fonds Marins)coreTechnology or IntegrationDepartment of the Senegalese Ministry of Fisheries partnering in the Sardinegal project, with the Quality Laboratory Manager supervising cold storage operations at the port of Joal.
• African Aquatic Conservation FundcoreTechnology or IntegrationNon-governmental organization specializing in mammalian acoustic recordings, partnering in Sardinegal biological missions to assess environmental conditions of fishing areas.
• Department of Public Health and Pediatric Sciences – University of TurinminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerUniversity department that invites NutriAid to deliver training lectures on pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment of childhood malnutrition to first-year Pediatric Nursing students.
• Commune of Itaosy Health CentersminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerLocal government health centers in the periphery of Antananarivo, Madagascar, where NutriAid implements digital vaccination database systems and health system strengthening programs.

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF): International medical-humanitarian organization that treats severe acute malnutrition as a core pillar of its work and operates extensively in Sahel and East Africa. MSF overlaps with NutriAid on community-based management of malnutrition and maternal-child health, although it is significantly larger and more clinically focused, and serves as both a direct programmatic peer and a potential referral/coordination counterpart.
• COOPI - Cooperazione Internazionale: Milan-headquartered Italian humanitarian NGO active in food security, malnutrition treatment, and agricultural development across Sub-Saharan Africa, including Sahel countries. COOPI mirrors NutriAid's combination of Italian-headquartered governance, multi-country African operations, and donor base, and operates at a slightly larger scale on directly comparable programming.
• Action Against Hunger: Global humanitarian organization directly focused on treating and preventing malnutrition, operating in many of the same African geographies as NutriAid (Senegal, Madagascar, Burkina Faso). Both organizations deliver community-based therapeutic feeding programs and combine nutrition rehabilitation with food security and WASH interventions, making Action Against Hunger the closest large-scale functional peer.
• Cesvi: Italian non-profit humanitarian organization founded in 1985 and headquartered in Bergamo, implementing projects on food security, nutrition, and community health in Africa and Latin America. Cesvi shares NutriAid's Italian institutional base, donor ecosystem (8x1000, corporate CSR), and operating geographies, making it a strong direct peer for benchmarking on funding mix and field execution.
• Welthungerhilfe: One of the largest European private humanitarian organizations, focused specifically on fighting hunger through nutrition, food security, and rural development programs in Africa and Asia. Welthungerhilfe is highly comparable to NutriAid in thematic focus (hunger and malnutrition) and target beneficiary groups, and competes for the same European institutional and public-donor funding pools.
• Save the Children: Global child-rights NGO that runs extensive nutrition, maternal-child health, and food security programs in many of NutriAid's target countries. Save the Children overlaps with NutriAid's primary beneficiary group (malnourished children 0–59 months and pregnant mothers) and competes for similar institutional donor funding from EU, Italian, and multilateral sources.
• Concern Worldwide: Irish humanitarian organization operating nutrition rehabilitation, food security, and livelihoods programs across Sub-Saharan Africa, including Sahel and East Africa. Concern's community-based treatment of acute malnutrition (CMAM) and integration of nutrition with food security aligns directly with NutriAid's enriched-flour and smallholder farmer programming in similar geographies.
• CARE International: Major international humanitarian organization running integrated nutrition, food security, and women's-health programs across Africa. CARE's focus on maternal-child nutrition, smallholder farmer support, and community-based programming makes it directly comparable to NutriAid's model, and it often partners with or competes against smaller Italian NGOs for the same institutional grants.

Broad incumbents

• World Food Programme (WFP): The UN's food-assistance branch, active across Senegal, Madagascar, Burkina Faso, and Kenya with school feeding, nutrition, and emergency food-security programs. WFP overlaps with NutriAid's nutrition and food-security mandate but at much larger scale and with government-level procurement power, making it both a peer in mission and a potential institutional partner/funder.
• UNICEF: UN agency that is the dominant global actor in child nutrition, immunization, and maternal-child health and a major funder/partner of smaller NGOs. UNICEF overlaps heavily with NutriAid's nutrition, vaccination, and MCH programming but operates at vastly larger scale and as both implementer and donor, often partnering with or contracting NutriAid-type organizations.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/nutriaidonlus
• Facebookfacebook.com/NutriAidInternational
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/nutriaidinternational
• Instagraminstagram.com/nutriaid

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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