Sri Sathya Sai Annapoorna Trust

Problem Statement: India is home to the largest number of children in the world. According to the Global Nutrition Report nearly 70 per cent of the s Read morechool-going children are undernourished and do not have access to a well-balanced diet, which leads to various deficiencies. Solution Offered: Considering aforementioned factors in 2012, a small group of IT engineers from Bangalore took it upon themselves to serve nutritious supplement to school children from poor families. In due course of time, in November 2015 a trust got set up as Sri Sathya Sai Annapoorna Trust, which strives to feed nutritious supplement to needy school going children in rural India and disadvantaged sections of the society with a strong goal of eradicating under-nutrition across the length and breadth of the country by providing free nutritious morning meal to the school going children with a vision aptly resonated by ‘Let no child go to school hungry, ever!’. Today Annapoorna trust serves free morning nutrition to over 80,00,000 children at remote distant locations and various geographies across India in 90,000+ Govt. schools across 23 States and 4 Union Territories. After the daily morning assembly and prayer at school, the children are provided the morning nourishment, before they begin classes. This window of opportunity to save our children from stunting and chronic malnutrition especially in the rural and under privileged centres in the nation, led us, Sri Sathya Sai Annapoorna Trust, to provide free morning nutritious to the rural school going children. Morning Nutrition, as research has shown, has a lasting effect on the health of children and aids in their physical and mental well-being, academic achievement and cognitive development. The high cost of many nutrient-dense foods in populations most at risk of undernutrition is a major barrier to resolving undernutrition and warrants urgent policy attention. A key objective of pro-equity, nutrition-sensitive food policies should be to improve the affordability of nutrient-rich foods, both economy-wide and for the poorest households. Also, according to the Food and Nutrition Security Analysis report, fortification, diversification, and supplementation may be used as simultaneous strategies to address macro and micronutrient deficiencies. Variants of Morning Nutrition Program: • SaiSure Malt based Nutritious Supplement • Fortified Raagi (finger millet) Cereals Health Mix • Millets Chikkis and Nutritious Cookies • Cooked Breakfast Trust has formulated a health supplement mix (called SaiSure) which has been designed to specifically meet the protein, calorie, vitamin and mineral requirements, as well as micronutrients required for growing children. The tasty and highly nutritious SaiSure health mix augments the milk and thereby makes it a wholesome meal for the children. This product is certified by the FSSAI and is manufactured in a FDA-approved facility. This product is easily consumed by simply mixing it in milk and also easily transportable to remote geographies. Significant improvement of health in children has been clearly reflected in the growth parameters of height and weight, and hemoglobin count in their blood, all scientifically established. Tangible benefits seen are as below : • Increased academic performance of the children. • Increased school attendance • Lower school dropout rates • Improved health parameters • Marked increase in class attentiveness and academic performance of the children. • Overall positive Impact on Health, Immunity and Academics of the students All these services, which would have otherwise been expensive for the needy children’s families, are rendered to the beneficiaries free of charge. In the next 3-5 years Annapoorna is planning to expand Morning Nutrition Supplement program towards villages in each and every district of the country.

OUR VISION
Let No Child Go To School HUNGRY EVER!
Annapoorna Breakfast Programme serves morning nutrition to more than 12,00,000 children in 15,000+ schools across 23 States and 4 Union Territories in India.

OUR MISSION
To nurture school-going children in rural India and disadvantaged sections of society with morning Nutrition while also catering to their emotional needs.