What causes child malnutrition and how to help
                     What causes child malnutrition and how to help?
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Poor brain development, delayed motor skills, slow or 
stunted growth and a weak immune system are just 
some of the effects of hunger and malnutrition in 
India. To end this, you can donate online and save 
malnourished children in India. Join us in our 
childhood rescue programme.
For many children and families in India, hunger is an 
everyday reality. They go to bed hungry, wake up 
hungry and spend the day in hunger. Improper intake 
of food over a period leads to malnutrition resulting in 
various ailments.
          
Malnutrition mars the health of a child. It’s time to save malnourished children 
because it’s effects are numerous and last a lifetime. World Vision India believes in 
empowering families to help them provide better for their children. Our ‘childhood 
rescue’ initiatives can save malnourished children. Donate online now.
The vulnerable families with malnourished children are not able to feed their children 
properly due to poverty and the lack of awareness on nutrition. Even though, they 
know about nutritious food intake, they are unable to provide because of poverty. 
Donate online and contribute to Childhood rescue, as it helps vulnerable families 
provide proper nutrition for their children. Save malnourished children in India.
Asha Bharti, homemaker and mother of three young children, Agradeep (6 years), 
Akansha (5 years) and Sanjana (3 years), lives in one of the communities of 
Khagaria, Bihar, with her husband Sandeep, who is a daily wage labourer by 
profession. Last year, World Vision India helped her set up her own nutri garden in 
front of her house.
Little did she know that her garden would come in handy in a time of pandemic 
outbreak and lockdown. With the support from our generous donors and sponsors, 
Asha’s children did not bear the brunt of the lockdown. Donate online to support 
families like them, through the childhood rescue initiative.
Sanjana, Asha’s youngest daughter, playing around the garden, pulls out a sponge 
gourd and asks Asha, “Cook me this please!” Asha is proud of her garden and is 
motivated to grow more vegetables to feed her children. Vegetables added to the 
daily diet give Asha’s children energy, vitamins, anti-oxidants, fibre and the water 
content to enable them to live healthy lives. They help protect the children against 
diseases that may arise later in their lives like heart disease, stroke and some 
cancers. A healthy diet means eating lots of vegetables in addition to a wide variety 
of foods from the other main food groups.
 
Asha received a very timely support. Donate online and save malnourished children by 
giving them timely support. Join us in our childhood rescue initiative. When there is no 
work and the markets are closed, Asha is extremely grateful she has her own nutri 
garden and says, “During this difficult COVID-19 lockdown period, the garden helped me 
feed my family and keep us nourished.” Asha is also part of monthly meetings for 
mothers, where she learns about healthy cooking and hygiene.
During this COVID-19 lockdown period, Nutri Gardens have brought happiness to the 
homes and smiles on the faces of children with malnutrition in India.
*Nutri garden / kitchen garden programme is a provision provided by World Vision India 
to identify and save malnourished children in families. The identified families are 
supported with seeds and saplings.
The kitchen garden is a small garden setup 
just behind or in front of the residence of the 
beneficiary. The childhood rescue 
programmes greatly improves the health of 
children.
Through your support, many children will be 
set free from malnutrition. Donate online and 
give a healthy life to children.
Join us.  Together for children. For change. For life.