Health



 Manna (Metropolitan Area Neighborhood Nutrition Alliance) is a non profit organization created to nourish the mind, body, and spirit of clients. MANNA was developed in 1990 by members of the first presbyterian church of Philadelphia. MANNA's purpose is to serve people of all race, age, gender, etc that are apart of Eastern Pennsylvania and Southern New Jersey. MANNA is mainly focused on people with life threatening illnesses such as Hiv, Aids, diabetes and cancer. They serve children, adults, individiuals, and families.

Every month, MANNA prepares nutritional meals (medically appropiate for their condition, to help their bodies gain ability to fight the illness) for all of these people and delivers it to them. Each of the clients receive meals 3 times a day, 7 days a week, at no charge. MANNA receives funding from corportations, faith communities, fair fundraisers, and individuals. The food is delivered by the staff and 1,500 volunteers of MANNA. MANNA also delivers nutritional counseling and has delivered 7,349,135+ meals to date. They make enough yearly delivery miles to circle the globe six times. This clearly relates to the globalization topic of health because the whole reason MANNA was developed was to improve peoples health. And obviously, since it was around for all of these years, the organization has been successful with their goal.