January 2001
Nine out of every 10 children in Nepal suffer some form of malnutrition. Paradoxically, it's because malnutrition is so widespread that it's also invisible, unnoticed. This is particularly true of Protein Energy Malnutrition, or PEM as it's known - a condition officially defined as being short and underweight for age, but which, in reality, is a devastating intergenerational cycle of lost potential, both physical and mental.