Fuelling Asia’s footballers for the future One goal to level the playing field 1 © One Goal 2014 All rights reserved. No portion of this publication may be reproduced in any form, except for brief excerpts in reviews, without prior permission of the publisher. Published by One Goal. For further information about this publication, or for additional copies of this publication, please email
[email protected] One Goal would appreciate receiving details of any use made of this material in training, research or programme design, implementation or evaluation. This report was written by Katie Chalk, Emma Edwards and Anna Ridout with contributions from Andrew Grifths, Susan Shulman and members of the One Goal campaign working group from the Asian Football Confederation, Asian Football Development Project, the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, Royal DSM, and World Vision International. Cover design and interior layout: Agency Infographic design: Inis Communications 2 Foreword ‘Unfortunately, Asia, especially South Asia has the highest ‘We know that investments in nutrition are a way to improve number of malnourished children in the world. This has huge economic growth. Undernourished children start school implications for individual health outcomes, national growth later, learn less in school, repeat grades more often, and do and long-term development. We have tried a lot of diferent not reach their full potential to contribute to the economy. strategies to combat malnutrition but it has been a struggle Undernutrition increases the burden of health-care costs, and to reach every child and community, especially those who adversely afects quality of life. Undernutrition throughout are marginalised.