Nutrition improvement in North

The Japan Social Development Fund through the World Bank will support the nutrition improvement in mothers and children in Northern Sri Lanka with a $2.7 million grant for a period of two years to reduce the compounded effects of the conflict as well as the global food and financial crisis on currently one of the most nutritionally vulnerable populations in the country.

Targeting pregnant and lactating women and children under two years to improve their nutrition status, adopts the life-cycle approach to nutrition and will allow the targeted population to live healthier and fuller lives said World Bank Country Director for Sri Lanka Diarietou Gaye.