Now, Brandis says, the group has come apart.
“It s unfortunate that the Full Belly Project was around for 20 years and did a lot of really good stuff and somehow came apart from the inside.”
But back to the beginning: according to Dr. Lesley Daspit, now former chair of the Full Belly Project, Brandis’s inventions were the origin of the organization itself.
“I think you had some, some really great ideas from the founder, Jock Brandis - him being in North Africa and Mali, identifying a problem where, you know, women and girls are spending significant amount of times, shelling peanuts by hand.”