“We know that about a billion people around the world are food-insecure, and that’s about one-sixth of the global population…,” Dr Rodel Lasco of the World AgroforestryCentre (ICRAF). 
Laos has some pretty dire nutrition stats. According to Save the Children, the percentages of underweight children have been almost unchanged between 1990 and 2006 (40% and 37.1%) and the prevalence of stunting in under-fives is up to 40.4%.
According to Save the Children’s Carol Perks, education about nutrition can significantly improves these stats
While initial the training of CleanBirth Volunteers in each village will be focused on safe pregnancy and birth, nutrition will be top of the list of future training topics.
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