The Akshaya Patra Foundation is one
of the globally renowned non profit
organizations. This Foundation provides the Government of India’s school
feeding programme to over 1.4 million children across over 10,000 schools in
India. The programme is implemented by the organisation in 24 locations across
10 states in the country. One of the states that Akshaya Patra implements the
programme is in Uttar Pradesh. The mid
day meal in UP functions from two kitchens set up in the state. The
kitchens are located at Vrindavan and Lucknow, together feeding over 150,000
children across nearly 2,000 Government schools every day. The kitchens work
towards alleviating child hunger in the region. The kitchens are able to
provide this wholesome food to the students through the online donations to charity Akshaya Patra.
Akshaya Patra is one of the non profit
organizations that have developed a great deal of trust from its patrons
over the past 15 years since its inception. The Foundation prioritises food
safety and quality above all else in all its kitchens including the two serving
the mid day meal in UP. The Foundation undertakes improvement strategies like
Six Sigma, GMP, Kaizen and implements Food Safety Management Systems in its
kitchens. As testament to this, ten of the kitchens are ISO 22000: 2005
certified while the rest are in the process of certification. Frequent quality
checks are undertaken in the kitchens, and feedback is collected from the
schools as well to constantly improve the quality of the programme. Hygiene
standards are maintained by ensuring that all the staff members follow personal
hygiene practices like frequently washing their hands and taking daily showers.
While in the kitchen the staffs also wear caps, gloves, face masks, gum boots,
and full uniform at all times. Through online donations to charity Akshaya
Patra, the Foundation has been able to scale up and take this nutritious
programme to many more children across the country.
Being one of the most innovative non
profit organizations, 22 of the 24 kitchens are follow the centralised format,
including the Vrindavan and Lucknow kitchens serving the mid day meal in UP. These kitchens are semi mechanised
units that can cook food for tens of thousands of children every day. Fitted
with cutting edge technology that allows for large scale cooking in a very
short amount of time, these kitchens also minimise human contact with the food.
This also ensures that food safety and hygiene is not compromised during the
cooking process. The Vrindavan kitchen which was set up in the year 2004 today
reaches out to nearly 140,000 children. The Lucknow kitchen was recently set up
in March 2015 and feeds over 11,000 children, with the capacity to scale up. Donations
to charity will support Akshaya Patra’s initiative in its work to feed more
children.
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