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Malnutrition lowers ability to learn, authors confirm

By Hannah Richardson

Cases of malnourished school-going children missing classes in Kenya are not strange just as it is in other African countries. But it may not have occurred to many that malnutrition can affect a child’s ability to read and write.

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