By Dorian Druelle, UNICEF France
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| Neni (center) is smiling with her classmates as she is now no longer suffering from diarrhoeal symptoms. ©UNICEF Indonesia/2013/Druelle |
Neni is a 10 years old Indonesian girl, but she has the size of a 7 or 8 years old child. Her fragile body bears the mark of stunting, a manifestation of chronic malnutrition which affects more than half of all children under five years of age in the region where she lives and more than a third in all children in Indonesia. She will probably wear the effects of stunting all her life, but her bright smile and sparkling eyes seem anticorrelated to her underweight; Neni is a shining child.
