Akshaya Patra's 16th Year Anniversary

Akshaya Patra's 16th Year Anniversary

Friday, November 20, 2015

Make the World a Better Place for Our Children

Happy Universal Children’s Day!

Akshaya Patra Beneficiary

Childhood is one of the most beautiful periods in life and every child should get an opportunity to enjoy it.  This is why November 20 is observed as Universal Children’s Day every year! The whole idea behind this celebration is improving children’s lives and making the world a better place for them. 

Living conditions of children have improved over the past few years.  However, some issues like poverty, child labour and hunger continue to haunt our children. Nearly 400 million children across the world still live in extreme poverty and do not get access to nutrition or education. The most concerning part is that a majority of these children live in developing countries, including India.

We are yet to get rid of classroom hunger or malnutrition. However, nutritional status of Indian children has improved considerably over the past few years and a major part of this credit goes to the Government and NGOs like The Akshaya Patra Foundation.

The Akshaya Patra Foundation, a leading NGO in India, had been trying to improve our children’s lives by distributing nutritious mid-day meals to school children in India. Starting the initiative with 1,500 school children in 2000, Akshaya Patra has succeeded in releasing 1.4 million children from the clutches of hunger. 

Mid-day meal

Interestingly, these mid-day meals have not only helped improve classroom attendance, but also have helped improve confidence in children.

The Akshaya Patra Foundation’s mission is to reach 5 million children by 2020 so that more children will get an opportunity to  eat healthy and get proper education.

Children are the future of a nation. On this Universal Children’s Day, join Akshaya Patra to fight classroom hunger and return the right to education to our lovely children.

Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Akshaya Patra Hyderabad Extends its Kitchen Unit

With the aim to feed more children Akshaya Patra Hyderabad has extended its centralised kitchen unit. The additional section will house extra cauldrons along with a cold room. The NGO latest news covers that the Foundation had an inaugural ceremony of the extended section of the kitchen. The new section was inaugurated by Professor V.S. Rao - Director BITS Pilani, Hyderabad in the presence of Akshaya Patra Hyderabad representatives Satya Goura Chandra Dasa – Unit President, and Raja Hamsa Dasa - Operations Manager.

Akshaya Patra Hyderabad Kitchen

Presently, Akshaya Patra Hyderabad provides freshly cooked nutritious mid-day meals to 54,849 children in 454 government schools of the region. The Foundation has also been involved in feeding the children of Anganwadi centers. The current reach of Akshaya Patra Hyderabad in this feeding programme is 38,087 Anganwadi children across 176 centers. The extension of the kitchen will certainly aid in feeding the children of Hyderabad both in government schools and Anganwadi centers.

Wednesday, November 4, 2015

An Ideal Mid-Day Meal for School Children

An estimate from the World Health Organization (WHO) shows that nearly 1.2 billion people in the world are poor.  Poverty is a huge issue in India too. The Indian economy is growing fast, but the nation is still to wipe out poverty completely from its soil. Poverty has a huge impact on people’s lives, especially for children. With no income to even have a basic meal a day children are forced to work to help supplement the family income. Thousands of children in the country miss out their education to support their family. Interestingly, there has been an improvement in this phenomenon since 2000, when The Akshaya Patra Foundation, an initiative founded with the motive that ‘No child in India shall be deprived of education because of hunger’ came into existence.  Akshaya Patra’s mid-day meal scheme which was kicked off with just 1,500 school children, at present, covers over 1.4 million Government school students in India.

Mid-day meal for school children

This NGO in India, through all these years, has been working hard to ensure that underserved school children get all the calories, proteins, minerals and vitamins needed to excel in studies and succeed in life. Akshaya Patra’s mid-day meal provides all the necessary nutrition needed for a healthy growth in childhood.

The organisation owes a large part of its success to its donors. The mission of The Akshaya Patra Foundation, now, is to reach out to 5 million children by the year 2020.

Food for Children

Today’s children are tomorrow’s citizens. Your contribution can help us build a healthy and smart society. To support out the programme, join us and give your contribution to feed more children and to remove hunger among children.

To know more how you can be part of Akshaya Patra, visit Get Involve.