Malnourished children are as such because in most cases, their families are not able to feed them properly. Poor families lack the financial means to buy adequate foods in proper quantity, quality and diversity. They consequently adopt diets that lack protein, vitamins and other micro-nutrients in particular. The most affected are those family members whose needs are higher but whose social status is lower. These are women and children. Health centers and Nutrition Rehabilitation Units (NRUs) provide clinical treatment for malnourished children. Yet, if the root causes of malnutrition, at family and community level, are not tackled, treated children, once back home, will soon fall back again into malnutrition. Thus, the clinical treatment of malnutrition should be complemented with interventions that support dietary diversification through the establishment of vegetable gardens.