Empowering Local Grocers to Reduce Malnutrition in Children Under the Age of 2 Years in Rural Tanzania

If a child is malnourished during the first 2 years of life, the child's physical and mental development will be slowed to such an extent that no correction is possible even when the child eventually grows older. This project explores the possibility of empowering local grocers to select and provide 3 meals per day to children less than 2 years and also to all lactating mothers in their own communities. The project will provide an opportunity to address the problem of malnutrition, which affects thousands of children in low- and middle-income countries, and is associated with increased mortality under the age of 5 years.