World Vision Praised for Malnutrition Project in Jharkhand

JHARKHAND — An Anganwadi[1] worker in Jharkhand recently praised a team from World Vision for its work with Jharkhand health officials to help reduce acute malnutrition in the state.


Although the State of Jharkhand contains about 40% of India’s entire mineral reserves, nearly 80% of the people who live there are farmers. It is India’s 14th most populous state with 33 million people. According to the World Bank, 13 million (40%) of the residents live in poverty, ranking Jharkhand as the state with the second highest poverty rate.

Malnutrition is pervasive. Over 45% of children under the age of five are stunted and underweight. IndiaSpend reports infant and child (under-five) mortality rates at 44 per 1,000 and 54 per 1,000, respectively.

Over 71.5% of children under five and 67% of women between the ages of 15 and 49 are anemic as a result of malnutrition. The India State-Level Disease Burden Initiative 2017 recognized malnutrition as the leading risk factor driving death and disability among women and children in 2016.

Acute poverty is the leading cause of malnutrition, followed by illiteracy, underage marriage, lack of sanitation, drinking contaminated water, lack of awareness of good nutrition, and lack of access to nutritious food locally. Awareness of good nutrition is important but useless if nutritious food is neither available or beyond the family’s ability to provide.

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