1. Akshaya Patra Feeding India's School Children Submitted by: Siju Bose Abhijith Ere Gowda Sandeep R Under Guidance of Prof. N S Viswanath

3. It providing unlimited, wholesome food to attract children to schools, retain them and then focus on children’s holistic development.

4. The program started in a humble way in the year 2000 serving 1500 children in five schools in Bangalore.

6. History Looking out of a window one day in Mayapur, a village near Calcutta, His Divine Grace A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada saw a group of children fighting with street dogs over scraps of food . From this simple, yet heart breaking incident, came the determination that: No one within a ten mile radius of our center should go hungry. It is his inspiration which helped us to create The Akshaya Patra Foundation as it is today.

8. Literacy, especially among women, remains low.

9. Dropout rates remain high: approx. 40% dropout before Class V.

10. India had the world's largest concentration of desperately poor people.

11. 60 million underweight children.

12. Ranks 93rd out of 119 developing countries in hunger (Global Hunger Index 2010)

14. 63% of them go to bed HUNGRY & 53% Suffer from chronic MALNUTRITION One in 3 of the world’s malnutrition children live in INDIA.

15. Vision & Mission VISION : No child should be deprived of education because of hunger. MISSION:To feed over 5 million children by 2020.

17. To liberate children from hunger and malnutrition

18. To promote basic education and the ability to think clearly

19. To acknowledge that all children have basic human rights

20. To help children become resilient against diseases associated with malnutrition

23. Cook large amounts of food in a short time, and therefore keep costs low.

24. The National Average cost of an Akshaya Patra meal to feed a child for an entire year is $28.

26. Minimal overhead

27. 6 INR per child per day ($0.13)

28. Efficient processes

29. Steam as cooking medium

30. Mechanized cutting of vegetables

31. Custom designed vehicles

32. Quality control measures

33. ISO 2000:2005 Certification for kitchens.

36. 580 customized vehicles delivers prepared meals to 1,253,266 children in 5528 schools.

38. A Large Cauldron like this cooks rice for 1000 student in 15 minutes. Rice is then transferred to a trolley by tilting the cauldron.

39. To Make Chapattis , these machines prepare 10,000 chapattis per hour.

40. In North India, it is Dal, Chapati or curry With vegetables and sometimes Deserts.. In South India, Rice, Curd & Sambar are served..

43. Management and funding

44. Maintaining cost efficiencies

45. Maintaining the Hygiene and Quality with Expansion

46. Site selection

47. Constant learning and improvement

48. Challenges with the supply chain

51. Decentralization of Operation

52. Incorporation of Automation

53. Education the Local Labor

54. Leveraging Local Markets

55. Public/Private/Non-Government Organization Partnerships

57. Opportunities Threats From other organizations like adhama chetana. Not only for children, poor womenalso. To reach more and more in urban areas. Efficiency and improvement on time consumption for preparing.

59. Better health and improved performance among students who received school lunches, especially among the female students.

60. The report showed a 13.8 percent and 34.2 percent improvement in enrollment for boys and girls respectively, in Bangalore schools.

62. Micronutrients

63. Pregnant Mothers

64. Increased standards

65. Better impact assessment

66. Creating long term partnerships

67. NGOs

68. Government

69. Private Sector

71. To liberate children from hunger and malnutrition

72. To promote basic education and the ability to think clearly

73. To acknowledge that all children have basic human rights

74. To help children become resilient against diseases associated with malnutrition

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