Our Bolles bookstore recently added a new item to the shelf: This Bar Saves Lives Bars. This Bar Saves Lives is a company that Ryan Devlin, Todd Grinnell, and Ravi Patel started when they traveled to Africa on a humanitarian trip.

While they were in Africa, they got up-close-and-personal with malnutrition and learned about different ways to prevent it. At that moment, they decided to do something about malnutrition by raising awareness through healthy bars. Ryan Devlin said, “What if we could make a wholesome, delicious nutrition bar… and use that to raise awareness and funds to help fight malnutrition around the world?”

So how are we helping malnutrition? Whenever we go to the bookstore and buy a This Bar Saves Lives Bar, we automatically donate one pouch of Plumpy’Nut to a child in Africa.

What is Plumpy’Nut? Plumpy’Nut is a peanut-based paste in a plastic wrapper used for treatment of severe acute malnutrition manufactured by a French company, Nutriset. With three packs of these a day, a child will regain their health and strength in a matter of three months.

Students have been loving these bars according to Mrs. Morales, one of the ladies you see whenever you go into the bookstore. “We are selling around six a day and plan on ordering more”.

Havana Frakes, a contributing writer for The Bolles Bugle, tried some of the bars and gave an excellent review: “The Madagascar Vanilla Almond and Honey Bar was better than I expected it to be, I would give it a 7/10, I’m not usually a person who enjoys health bars. I have yet to try the others.”

Be sure to stop by the campus store and try This Bar Saves Lives and tell The Bolles Bugle what you think!