Akshaya Patra Foundation works to implement a holistic mid-day meal scheme to provide fresh and nutritious food to school children. The Government of Read moreIndia, State governments, corporates and several organisations support its efforts. Its centralised and decentralised kitchens models respectively serve schools in close vicinity and those which are in remote areas managed by women self-groups following the organisation's kitchen processes. It has launched multiple feeding and social initiatives including Anganwadi feeding, disaster relief, feeding expecting and lactating mothers, feeding programmes in old-age homes and special schools, feeding runaway children, feeding the homeless, subsidised lunch for the economically disadvantaged besides involving itself in other social causes like after-class tuitions, community health camps, health check-up camps, life-skills programmes and scholarship programs. Akshaya Patra Foundation has won many acclaims over the years of its service, the latest being The 24th SIES Sri Chandrashekharendra Saraswati National Eminence award and The India Today RPG-Happiness award.