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who we are what we do why nutrition our team contact More improving health and life outcomes for current and future generations who we are we are a catalyst for nutrition innovation our purpose is to improve health and life outcomes for current and future generations we build test and scale ideas that create and nurture demand for good nutrition prevent and respond to malnutrition and improve the nutrition status of individuals families and communities while being intentional about underserved needs sustainability social and environmental impact our goal is to enable effective appealing accessible and affordable nutrition neevv building the foundations of good nutrition what we do neevv is a social enterprise working towards supporting critical nutrition needs through innovative food solutions community engagement collaborations technology and policy engagement our immediate focus is on enabling effective appealing accessible and affordable nutrition during the foundational thousand days pregnancy lactation and infancy up to two years of age over the next five years we aim to impact anemia and other micronutrient deficiencies for two million mothers and children breaking the cycle of childhood stunting one woman at a time why nutrition malnutrition is our biggest public health problem even as overnutrition becomes a bigger challenge undernutrition continues to persist globally according to a recent study published by Lancet 1 in 2 preschool aged children and 2 in 3 women of reproductive age worldwide have at least one micronutrient deficiency malnutrition is the underlying cause of nearly half of all deaths among children under the age of five 150m 17 children are stunted 45m 7 are wasted 39m are overweight obese India is the fifth largest economy in the world and significant progress has been made in improving food security and nutrition. however child malnutrition persists 32 children are underweight 35 children are stunted 20 children are wasted 11 receive an adequate diet 65 children are anemic over 50 pregnant women are anemic undernutrition has significant implications for each generation of children and hence for the social wellbeing and economic health of a country nutrition is critical for growth brain development immune and other vital functions. lack of good nutrition has devastating lifelong consequences physical growth intellectual development mental health lifelong immunity to disease earning potential childhood malnutrition is primarily responsible for 45 childhood mortality 15 disease burden 20 lower lifetime earnings 4 lower GDP adequate childhood nutrition especially during the first thousand days pregnancy lactation up to two years of age is absolutely critical for a child39s growth brain development immune and other vital functions and significantly impacts future physical and mental health intellectual ability and earning potential an undernourished mother inevitably gives birth to an undernourished baby. and even more importantly a mothers nutrition during pregnancy impacts the health of her child through adulthood breaking the intergenerational cycle of undernutrition and stunting requires significant improvement in the nutrition status of women and children meet our team Rima Pande Amarjeet Sinha Iksha Chhabra Keerthi Priya Himanshu Sinha Sowmya Ramesh get in touch Thanks for submitting.