The Akshaya Patra Foundation is an international charity for children that has worked to transform a vision into a reality by providing mid-day meals to government school children, feeding almost 1.2 million children everyday.
Its mission is to reach out to 5 million children by 2020.
Akshaya Patra
No child in India shall be deprived of education because of hunger
The District Collector of Jaipur Sri. Naveen Mahajan recognised the services of Akshaya Patra during the recent flood in Jaipur. Over 50,000 meals have been served by Akshaya Patra to flood survivors as part of the relief program. Read about how Akshaya Patra came to the rescue of flood victims in Jaipur
With one in three malnourished children in the world living in India, the problem of child malnutrition has been one of the major developmental concerns of the country for many years. The Akshaya Patra Foundation is an organization which has been striving to make sure that no child in India is deprived of their basic right to food. The organization believes that mare feeding is not important. What matters is, providing the children a meal which has a high nutritional value. Akshaya Patra provides a non-negotiable three item menu which is different in different states depending on the staple diet of the respective region. The organization experienced that an average intake per child is between 70 to 80 grams. As a mother finds out a new tasty recipe everyday to increase the intake of the child, Akshaya Patra similarly struggles day in and out to make the meal tasty and nutritious. For an instance as children does not like to eat rice much, the organization has tried to make the menu interesting and thereby increase the intake by replacing rice with idly once or twice a week. The organization has an ambitious aim to feed 5 million children by 2020.
Help the foundation eliminate hunger from our nation. Join the movement and be a change so that these statistics does not haunt us anymore.
