Icddr,b has received grant awards from Grand Challenges Canada, funded by the Government of Canada, to undertake two bold and creative projects aimed at improving the early brain development of children in Bangladesh, says a press release.
Both the projects fall under icddr,b’s child development research area. A total of 14 projects have received grants under Grand Challenges Canada’s ‘Saving Brains’ programme: five in Africa, six in Asia and three in Latin America and the Caribbean.
60% of children are developmentally at risk
Almost 60% of children in Bangladesh are at risk of poor physical and mental development due to low body weight (22%) and under nutrition (41%), poverty and sub-optimal stimulation due to low parenting knowledge. Almost 60% of the patients of icddr,b are children, many of whom suffer from developmental problems due to malnutrition and other related illnesses.
Source - The Daily Star

