Akshaya Patra has taken the responsibility of feeding millions of children everyday—an effort that gives hope. This article gives you an overview of the organisation’s mission, core responsibilities and other initiatives that are operated every day.

1. Akshaya Patra has taken the responsibility
of feeding millions of children everyday—an
effort that gives hope. This article gives you
an overview of the organisation’s mission,
core responsibilities and other initiatives
that are operated every day.
Being
Responsible:
The Akshaya
Patra
Foundation

2. Every minute is used seemingly well at The Akshaya Patra Foundation—an
NGO in India which believes that no child should be deprived of education
due to hunger. Since its inception, the organisation has endeavoured to end
classroom hunger through mid-day meal programme, thus encouraging
millions of children to attend school regularly. As a role of an NGO, it is now
Akshaya Patra’s mission to feed 5 million children by 2020. It becomes
extremely important to have donation for NGO and work towards our
mission.

3. At The Akshaya Patra Foundation, it is a promise kept to feed a wholesome
meal to the underserved children across many states. With an ever-growing
dedication, The Foundation has been feeding nutritious meals to more than
1.5 million children in India every day. With generous support from the
Government of India and State Governments and individuals’ donation for
NGO, the Akshaya Patra vessel has been inexhaustible.
Feeding children has been The Foundation’s core function among many
others. As a role of an NGO that implements mid-day meal programme, we
started with five government schools in Bengaluru, feeding 1500 children.
That was 15 years ago! The overwhelming response from schools explained
the need of the programme. Today, more than 11,000 schools are
benefitting from this programme. The State Governments have partnered
with The Akshaya Patra Foundation to implement the Mid-Day Meal
Programme in order to increase the number of children they reach out to.
This partnership has been instrumental in improving the quality and reach of
the programme.
While it is an everyday task to serve millions of children, the organisation
ensures quality in food and follows hygiene instructions strictly. Before and

4. after the food is prepared, all the vessels in the kitchen are sanitised, fresh
food is packed in steel containers and are delivered to schools at lunch time.
During the entire process, the focus of Akshaya Patra continues to be
children and their satisfaction in every mid-day meal—without a wholesome
meal, it becomes a challenge for a child to sit in a classroom and learn. The
Foundation ensures that meals contain sufficient nutrients and protein along
with taste. An impact study by AC Nielsen in 2010 showed that mid-day
meals helped in increasing school attendance, socialisation among children,
and improvement in nutritional status and decrease in drop-out rate.
Apart from working towards countering hunger and malnutrition in school
children, Akshaya Patra also has other feeding initiatives: Feeding
Anganwadi children and women, expecting and lactating mothers, runaway
children, residents at old-age homes, the homeless and many more. When
the volume of work is high, so is the support. Akshaya Patra believes in
being transparent to maintain trust—every year an Annual Report is
published which discloses financial audits, number of beneficiaries,
government grants and donations received and growth over the last years.
At The Akshaya Patra Foundation – an NGO in India, the unlimited food for
education is transforming many young lives. The organisation has taken the
responsibility of many children to safeguard them from hunger and lack of
education—because every child has the right to live.
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