Akshaya Patra foundation is an NGO that started its operations in Bangalore, Karnataka in June 2000. Currently this NGO feeds 1.3 million children across India every day. The vision of Akshaya Patra Is that no child shall be deprived of education because of hunger.

1. The Akshaya Patra Foundation
Toll Free Number:18004258622 | :infodesk@akshayapatra.org | :+91 80-30143400
The Akshaya Patra Foundation is known all over India, and several parts of the
world for the exceptional work they are doing in helping to alleviate child hunger
in India. This NGO which started its operations in Bangalore, Karnataka now feeds
over 1.3 million children a day through its mid-day meal programme. This children
charity in Bangalore aims to provide ‘Food for Education’ to achieve their vision
that no child shall be deprived of education because of hunger. The charity in
Karnataka has 6 kitchens across the state. Aside from those at Bellary, Hubli,
Mangalore and Mysore, the NGO for children education in Bangalore has two
kitchens in this city.
This charity in Karnataka caters to a total of 460,046 children across 2,627
government schools across the state. All the six kitchens of this children charity in
Bangalore are centralized kitchens. Centralised kitchens are highly mechanised
and able to produce food on a large scale. Because of the highly mechanised
nature of the cooking, this NGO for children education in Bangalore produces
food of high quality and hygiene levels, by reducing the human contact with the
food.
The charity in Karnataka opened its first Akshaya Patra kitchen at H.K Hill,
Bangalore, capable of feeding 1,500 children. Today this children charity in
Bangalore has 22 kitchens across the country catering to 10,631 government
schools every working day. The NGO for children education in Bangalore just
opened up its most recent two kitchens, one at Rourkela, Orissa and the other at
Jodhpur, Rajasthan.
Out of the six kitchens run by this charity in Karnataka, four of them are ISO
22000:2005 certified, while the remaining two are in the process of certification.
Overall 11 kitchens of 22 from this children charity in Bangalore are ISO
22000:2005 certified. This NGO for children education in Bangalore also pays
heed to the environment. Several Akshaya Patra kitchens including the Hubli
kitchen have undertaken green initiatives like setting up Green kitchen gardens,
constructing effluent treatment plants, rain water harvesting and vermin
composting.
Akshaya Patra serves up a solution to poverty and
hunger
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2. The Akshaya Patra Foundation
Toll Free Number:18004258622 | :infodesk@akshayapatra.org | :+91 80-30143400
By serving tasty, nutritious mid-day meals to government schools, this charity in
Karnataka hopes to reach out to many more children each year to eventually rid
the country of hunger. Till then, this children charity in Bangalore aims to fulfil
their mission of feeding 5 million children by 2020. This mid-day meal programme
run by the NGO for children education in Bangalore has not just succeeded in
providing nutrition to many; it has also acted as an incentive to bring children
back to school. The mid-day meal programme run by The Akshaya Patra
Foundation has found to have had positive impacts like increasing enrolment,
attendance, concentration and socialisation, while reducing school dropout rates.
The progress Akshaya Patra has made in its endeavour to reduce hunger is
commendable indeed. If you would like to get involved with The Akshaya Patra
Foundation, donate or volunteer, and make a child’s world a little brighter.
For more information visit the websites: www.akshayapatra.org
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