the programme is targeted on poor households with children aged as well as on the elderly persons with disabilities pregnant or lactating women altogether it covers about million children twothirds of whom are aged under years in addition it has contributed to a reduction in the prevalence of low heightforage and increased muscle mass among beneficiary children world bank b the same results are reported by two different studies using experimental data according to shamah et al the rate of anaemia has decreased three times more compared to the control group due to nutrition based on the enriched milk