Mission 10 million meals

Impact

Krish is a young boy from a below poverty line family. His father works as a daily labourer and his mother is a domestic worker. The family struggles hard to feed themselves everyday. No matter how difficult the financial status is, Krish has never given up on his dream of becoming a Scientist. He comes to school everyday because of the meals he gets in his school in Ahmedabad. He gets educated and fed at the same time.Your support will help many children like Krish and give them hope for a better future.

About The Program

The Akshaya Patra Foundation provides unlimited food for education of children coming from challenging socio-economic backgrounds. Meals are customised taking into account the local palate of the beneficiary. To elaborate, rotis are served in North India while rice is served in South India. The Foundation is present in 14 states and 2 union territories covering 19,039 schools in India that are well-connected or present in far away localities that are difficult to access. By feeding meals, classroom hunger is eliminated so that the child can concentrate on studies and focus on achieving their dreams.

About The NGO

The Akshaya Patra Foundation is a non-profit organisation that was founded in Bengaluru, India to fight issues like hunger and malnutrition by implementing the Mid-Day Meal Scheme in the government and government-aided schools. Aiming also to bring children to school, the organization has worked towards reaching more children with wholesome food on every single school day. Continuously leveraging technology to cater to millions of children, their state-of-the-art kitchens have become a subject of study attracting curious visitors from around the world. With humble beginnings of serving just 1,500 children across 5 schools their program has become the world's largest (not-for-profit run) mid-day meal programme serving wholesome food to over 1.6 million children from 13,839 schools across 12 states in India. Their efforts have been recognized nationally and internationally with awards like CII National Food Safety Awards by the CII Food Safety, International ARC Award by the International ARC honoring outstanding achievements in annual reports and Nikkei Asia Prize by the Nikkei in Economic and Business Innovation. Their mission to feed 5 million children by 2020 reflects the 6,550 strong staff's commitment that no child in India shall be deprived of Education because of Hunger.