Our Focus
Every child should be able to thrive.
Right now, there are 45 million children suffering from acute malnutrition. This means they are too thin for their height because they don’t have access to the right nutritious food. It also means they are at risk of a lot of other health problems including disease and death. Over the last 10 years, a lot of attention has gone towards treating malnourished children, but to really break the cycle, we need to stop children from becoming malnourished in the first place.
The problem is huge, but so is the opportunity.
The innocent foundation finds visionary people and organisations working on effective and innovative new ideas.
Our first focus is on small quantity lipid based nutrient supplements, or SQ-LNS. This is a small but mighty sachet full of the calories and nutrients that young kids need to keep them on the right track. We think SQ-LNS could be a real gamechanger in preventing infants from becoming malnourished. But right now, it isn’t in the hands of the kids who need it, and we want to do something about that.
