Digit growth: Bangladeshi mothers are encouraged to give their children Danone’s nutrition-rich Shoktidoi yogurt

When in 2007 a team of health specialists conducted a developmental assessment of the pupils at Dandelion Middle School near Beijing – an institution for children of migrant workers – it found that one of the factors hampering their ability to learn was not mental but physical. Many of the children had iron-related anaemia and were deficient in vitamins A and B.