Akshaya Vidya

COVID-19 has wrecked the whole world and caused damage like never before. The people worst-hit by this are those who depend on daily wages for their survival.

Akshaya Vidya is Ekalavya Foundation’s educare project for the underprivileged children living in the slums of Hyderabad. Since the families of our tutors and students depend on daily wages for their survival. With no work and earnings, it was very difficult for them to feed themselves and their families. Hunger seemed to be a bigger challenge than COVID-19 for them. 

To help the in their struggle for daily food, We have distributed around 4000 grocery kits to the families of the students and staff of Akshaya Vidya Learning Centres.

About 5 lakh migrants live in the twin cities and only half of them have been able to leave for their home States through Shramik trains. The scene at the registration centres is heart-wrenching as these people wait for their turn with family, holding on to their belongings with little money to fight starvation. The situation is pathetic as they're otherwise healthy, hard working, independent respectable people who are literally reduced to begging and/or starving. We have been able to do respond to the request of GHMC by supplying bread kits. The requirement is indeed huge.We have provided about 42650 kits till now with the financial support from like-minded people and organizations.

Our aim is to raise funds and distribute grocery kit and bread kits to the needy.

We plan to provide 96000 meals to the slum-dwellers through grocery kits or 40000 meals to the migrants leaving by Shramik trains through bread kits.