Merry Fitzpatrick laid the groundwork, finalizing a communications tool for stunting to help mothers and practitioners to better understand what stunting is in the Democratic Republic of Congo. While this study was halted due to the pandemic, we hope that it will start again soon. This study was associated with the Budikadidi project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 

Two growth charts were developed for this project, one for young boys and one for young girls. The following graphic above represents the growth chart for young boys.