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What We Do and Why We Do It

Childhood stunting is a condition in which children experience impaired growth and development due to malnutrition and frequent illness, leading to lifelong negative consequences.

The problem is clear—worldwide, over 150 million children are stunted and suffering the effects. They are more prone to illness, complete fewer years of schooling, earn lower wages as adults, and face a higher risk of chronic disease in early adulthood.

A stunted start in life is unfair—but it is also preventable.

Our vision is to ensure every child's first 1,000 days of life as the foundation for a happy, healthy, and productive life, free from malnutrition and rich in cognitive development opportunities.

Heights and Minds has a solution for this problem.

Our solution? The MindUp.

We developed an innovative, holistic child growth and development model to prevent stunting and are currently testing it in five countries—Senegal, Indonesia, Uganda, Malaysia, and India—as well as previously in Cambodia.

Heights and Minds Principles

Demand Driven
Needs Based
Community Owned
Technology Driven
Shared Expertise
Sustainable
Empower
Globally Connected

What does Heights and Minds do?

Heights and Minds aims to prevent stunting and promote child growth and development by establishing tech-driven MindUp centers staffed with highly trained managers in collaboration with local partners.
Illustrated poster explaining how Heights and Minds prevents stunting

Our approach

Heights and Minds prevents chronic malnutrition during the first 1,000 days of life by:

Our results so far?

More than 5,000 caregivers and children have participated in the MindUp and continue to be actively engaged.
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