JAKARTA, Indonesia, June 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- By teaching sustainable farming skills, creating microenterprises and providing nutrition education, Kraft Foods is empowering women and thereby helping to eradicate child malnutrition in some of the neediest areas of Indonesia and Bangladesh. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090420/KRAFTLOGO) Announced today at a World Economic Forum meeting in Jakarta, Kraft Foods' $3.8 million program in cooperation with Helen Keller International will help families in the East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) region of Indonesia, where 58 percent of children under age 5 have stunted growth due to malnutrition, and in the Satkhira district of Bangladesh, where about half of the children under age 5 are malnourished.

The H. J. Heinz Company (NYSE:HNZ) announced today at the Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting in New York City the expansion of its global nonprofit Micronutrient Campaign to India, where the Company hopes to eventually benefit more than six million children.

WASHINGTON, June 22 /U.S. Newswire/ -- An Academy for Educational Development project significantly improved child health in five countries, as measured by double-digit gains in key breastfeeding practices.

ABSTRACT Indonesia's economic crisis of late 1990s lowered consumption of micronutrient-rich foods, which increased the prevalence of micronutrient deficiencies, including anemia.