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Millions of school meals are served every day by the World’s largest nonprofit Akshaya Patra Foundation across India. Free mid-day meals for children are is an incentive which brings them back to school daily.

In thousands of schools across India, teachers will tell you to add one more “R” to reading, ’riting, and ’rithmetic. Recess, they’ll tell you, may be the most critical part of a student’s school day.

The first radio outreach programme of The Akshaya Patra Foundation will be launched on All India Radio, Vivid Bharathi 96.7 in Ahmedabad.

Millions of school meals are served every day by the World’s largest nonprofit Akshaya Patra Foundation across India. Free mid-day meals for children are is an incentive which brings them back to school daily

Just one look at the time ticking towards noon creates a void in my stomach. With rays of mid-summer sun bright over my head, I begin to realize that I am already hungry, though I had a sumptuous filling of breakfast just about 3 hours ago

Far away from my country, I haven’t thought I whether I could change myself or not, or change others. We live in Dharward’s city centre.

Nearly four-week-internship in AKSHAYA PATRA is coming to an end with the memory fresh about the emotions mixed with uneasy fear and trembling, expectation and nervous. The first time to know about and work in an NGO.

A delegation of experts from American school nutrition program visited Akshaya Patra, Jaipur to study the centralised mid day meal program. The delegation consisted of secretaries from various states overseeing the school

The Vice-chairman of the Akshaya Patra Foundation, Shri Chanchalapathi Dasa will be one of the speakers at the TIDES leadership summit conducted by the CII

It is mid-noon on a warm Thursday and a blue bus can be seen winding its way through ceaseless Bangalore city traffic to Tasker Town,a bustling area in the heart of the metropolitan.The bus comes to a stop outside the colonial style building of Govt.

On a sunny morning of Sunday, a community of bloggers from the city of joy woke up to gather around for a cause. A cause focused at feeding 5 million under-privileged children by the end of this decade.

Imagine a new-born child, the latest addition to a family of 5, fresh with the hope of a new beginning. She announces her arrival into the world with her first breath, fiercely staking her claim to life, much to the joy of her parents.

According to minister of State for Human Resources Development, Govt. of India D Purandeswari, over 13 crore children across the country are receiving benefits from the mid-day meal scheme.

There were days when poor students would go to Teachers house to have “Varanna” in which the students would be fed once in a week. On a rotation, the student would go to different teacher’s house and other rich people in the locality.

It is truly frightening that two million children in India die because of hunger and add to our hunger statistics every year. This implies that in India 6000 children dies every single day because of starvation.

Akshaya Patra - Starting with a meager 1500 children in 5 schools of Bangalore the foundation today reaches out to 1.2 million children every day across 9 states and 19 locations.

The Akshaya Patra Foundation, the largest school meal program reaching out to 1.2 million children every day across 8 states and 18 locations of India. The organization exemplifies how public private partnership can work wonders.

“Akshaya Patra has indeed helped us,” says Vasantha Kumari.

By serving nutritious meal in the school Akshaya Patra not only combat hunger but also help the children pursue their education.

The foundation’s aim is to reach out to 5 million children by 2020. Help them in their movement towards a hunger free nation. Join them now.

Conversion cost support from State Govt: 25% Subsidized grain allotment : 25% Donations : 45% others : 5%

Akshaya Patra’s food for education school meal program addresses two major problems facing India’s poor children lack of food and lack of education.