SALT LAKE CITY — A few weeks ago, Sharon Eubank said she visited a young mother with a daughter who had been suffering from severe malnutrition. Although she had received medical care, her child’s health deteriorated again — something she said happens 80% of the time due to problems in the child’s environment.

Eubank, director of humanitarian services for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, said a consortium created by the church used its strengths to help identify the root of the woman’s problem, and now she will no longer need to return for peanut paste for her daughter. The organizations helped her husband farm vegetables instead of rice and wheat, allowing the family to eat healthier and make an income by selling at the market.

“It transformed 20 people’s lives because o

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