Bangladesh: Tackling Childhood Malnutrition

Childhood malnutrition is the lack of proper nutrition that children suffer due to inadequate breastfeeding, early/delayed weaning, inappropriate feeding practices, frequent infections and inadequate health care. Childhood malnutrition not only restricts a child’s physical growth but also limits the child from reaching full potential as an adult. Major aspects of under-nutrition are stunting, underweight and wasting. In Bangladesh, 41% of the children are stunted, 36% are underweight, and 16% are wasted. TCM’s goal is to reduce childhood malnutrition in Bangladesh by facilitating the scale up of Government’s National Nutrition Services (NNS). The project is being implemented in 4 geographically distinct regions to maximize learning and inform scale up nationally. This video captures our work in one of the upazila’s/sub-district.


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