The “Power of 5 – Preschool Children’s Nutrition Improvement Project”, an initiative in China to help children aged 3 to 5 to fight for childhood malnutrition, kicked off in Xiangyang City, Central China’s Wuhan Province. The project is expected to provide nutrition supplement for 1087 local children in three years.

China Child and Teenagers’ Fund (CCTF) launched the project in 2015, together with Amway Charity Foundation and China Development Research Foundation, to help three-to-five-year-old children living in poor area of China gain access to the nutrition they need during their critical period of growth. It will provide nutrition supplements for children and physical examination support at kindergartens.

The project combines the advantages of the CCTF and Amway in charity projects and food and nutrition, respectively, working to solve the problem of children malnutrition in China’s poor areas, said Zhu Xisheng, secretary-general of CCTF. It is also part of our efforts to get rid of poverty in impoverished areas, he added.

According to the “National Nutrition Program (2017-2030) issued by the General Office of the State Council, China will make efforts to reduce the anaemia rate of children aged under 5 and of pregnant women to below 12 percent by 2020, and further drop the stunting rate of children under 5 to below five percent.

The Power of Five project has been carried out in 384 rural kindergartens and benefited more than 13,000 3-to-5-year-old children in provinces of Qinghai, Shanxi, Huan, Gansu, Xinjiang, and Hebei. It has significantly improved the nutrition and health condition of children covered in the project.

In addition, the project also offered food and nutrition education which helps change children’s eating habits and reduce the occurrence of illness of children.

Attendees pose for a photo at the ceremony of Power of 5 – Preschool Children’s Nutrition Improvement Hubei Project.