Annamrita Foundation

To help children who had lost access to mid-day meals due to closures arising from the pandemic. Annamrita donated dry ration kits to these children and affected communities through its kitchens spread across the country. The kit contains essentials like rice, flour, pulses, sugar, salt, cooking oil and spices.

To assist frontline workers in serving COVID patients, Annamrita set out to supply healthcare staff like doctors, nurses, assistant staff, pathology staff and assistants with freshly prepared, nutritious meals.

Municipal staff are working round the clock to ensure sanitation and act as a primary deterrent to stop the pandemic from spreading further. To show appreciation to these workers the organisation supplies a full course meal to them in the Maintenance, Public Health, Water, Social Justice, Disaster Management, and Solid Waste Management departments.

It works to implement mid-day meal programmes in Government and Government aided schools to ensure that children attend school and pursue education. It has set up kitchens across eight states in twelve cities to serve children; the work is carried out without any profit motive and is available to all children irrespective of religion, caste, creed or gender.

It provides healthy and hygienic relief meals to people impacted by the pandemic losing their jobs, resources and livelihoods. It has mobilized kitchens across the country that cook meals in two shifts and delivered them to organisations and needy people.

Since the COVID-19 pandemic hit the country, hunger has threatened millions of Indians more than ever. Women and children are the worst impacted. Several school-going children lost access to mid-day meals. Witnessing the situation, we realized the need to redirect our efforts toward feeding the most impacted communities in India. Leveraging our kitchens across the country, the Kit Of Joy program focuses on delivering healthy and wholesome nutrition in the form of dry rations and provisions. Each Kit Of Joy donated to a child consists of: Rice Flour Moong dal Chana dal Sugar Salt Cooking Oil Turmeric Powder Chilli Powder We have already served more than 8 crore Kits of Joy to people in 8 states. Your small initiative can double this figure, ultimately helping more and more unprivileged people in tough times.

Annamrita has long resolved to uplift the health status of children by liberating them from the vicious cycle of Illiteracy and Malnutrition by providing them nutritious and hygienic mid-day meals prepared in hi-tech kitchen which nourishes the body and improves the nutritional status among young children. Its mid day meal program is being implemented in municipal, government aided and non-aided schools for the benefit of underprivileged children. The work is done without any commercial motive and the benefits are available to needy students at large without any discrimination on the grounds of religion, caste, creed or gender. Since the launch of the school lunch program, Annamrita has set up state-of-the-art kitchens in 8 states and 21 cities namely; Tardeo, Mahula, Mira Bhayandar, Nigdi, Palghar, Aurangabad, Wada, Nagpur, Jalna, Delhi, Jamshedpur, Faridabad, Gurgaon, Kurukshetra, Palwal, Kolkata, Jaipur, kadapa, Nellore, Rajamundary, Ranganarra Gadda, and Tirupati.

On 25th March 2020, when the nation came to a standstill against the spread of the pandemic, lakhs of people lost access to income, resources, and daily meals. At this point, the Annamrita Foundation decided to leverage its kitchens across the nation to do more than just serve mid day meals. We began delivering healthy and hygienic COVID relief meals to those stranded in the lockdown.