Category: end child hunger

  • Akshaya Patra Foundation: Addressing the painful pangs of hunger

    Let us revisit a small tale from the Mahabharata to get a better understanding of the term “Akshaya Patra”. This goes back to the time when the Pandavas and queen Draupadi were living in exile. In those days, a lot of their acquaintances used to visit them in the forest which formed their temporary residence.…

  • Lives changed by The Akshaya Patra Foundation

    If you spend a day at GLPS Vaderahalli, you would believe it to be like any other school. One wouldn’t know, if not told, that out of the 95 students enrolled here, 45 are living with HIV/AIDS. These children are orphaned, having lost their parents to the disease, and are cared for by a charitable…

  • This NGO feeds over 1 million children everyday

    Not many things bring me out of bed at 5am. But when I heard about the Akshaya Patra Foundation’s operations, I just had to check it out for myself. So on a rainy August morning, two colleagues and myself headed to their centralized kitchen in Bangalore. The organisation runs its operations through two kitchen models:…

  • How it began at The Akshaya Patra Foundation

    The Akshaya Patra Foundation came into being in the year 2000. A one-man initiative, it started with feeding 1,500 school children in Bangalore and has expanded to feeding over 1.3 million children over 14 years. That one man whose initiative it was to feed 1,500 children was Sri Madhu Pandit Dasa. Born in Nagercoil, Tamil…