Nestlé announced to continuously support the "Maternal and Infant Health Project" jointly organized by China Dairy Industry Association (CDIA) and China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation (CFPA), donating infant nutritional products to the Rescue Centre of Xunyi County, a State-level poor county,and organizing infant nutrition experts to provide professional health and feeding guidance.

This is the third year that Nestlé has continued its efforts on improving thenutrition of pregnant mothers and 6-month to 3-year-old children from local impoverished families.

The "Maternal and Infant Health Project" is a public welfare program initiated by CFPA, with the aim to help poor mothers and babies. The project rescue centre, established at XunyiWomen"s and Children"s Hospital, delivers funds and material aids to impoverished mothersand children in the local area, playing a very positive role in improving the conditions of their nutrition supply.

It is Nestlé"s continuous commitment to provide nutritional products and knowledge to children in underdeveloped rural areas. In addition to working with CDIA and CFPA, Nestlé has also been partnering with the China Soong Ching Ling Foundation to provide the same support in Huining, Gansu Province, Zunyi,Guizhou Province, and Ruijin, Jiangxi Province, with the aim to help the children in poverty-stricken areas improvetheir nutrition and health condition.

As a global leader in Nutrition, Health and Wellness, Nestlé has always been dedicated to the cause of infant nutrition and health. Besides developing high quality and safe nutritional products for infants, Nestlé has also actively engaged in the communication and sharing of the latest information in medicine and nutritionthrough cooperation with different global medical societies, professional academic websites and various seminars, making positive contributions to the cause of women and infant nutrition as well as health.

Additionally, Chinese Nutrition Society and Nestlé have introduced the "Nestlé Healthy Children Global Program" to China since 2010. The program circulates nutrition and health knowledge for 6- to12-year-old children and helps them develop balanced eating habits and healthy lifestyle at an early age.