This Chhattisgarh NGO feeds more than 23,000 children every day

 

The Akshaya Patra Foundation, Chhattisgarh NGO unit started operating as a mid-day meal provider in January 2009. It reaches out to children of 160 Government schools in Bhilai. Apart from Chhattisgarh, Akshaya Patra implements the mid-day meal scheme in India in nine other states thereby feeding 1.39 million children every day.

NGO role in India

 

 While talking of various organisations, one prominent organisation is the NGO role in India in particular and world in general. There are various non-governmental organisations across the globe that works towards varied causes pertaining to environment, society, health, education, rehabilitation and the like. The Akshaya Patra Foundation is one such Indian NGO.

Unlimited food for education- Motto of Akshaya Patra

 The Akshaya Patra Foundation is an Indian non-governmental organisation providing mid-day meal to children of Government schools. Child labour and drop-out cases across India are issues widely known and worked for. Many initiatives and schemes have been formulated to tackle these recurring issues. Akshaya Patra well understood the interrelation between food and education that gave rise to the idea of food for education. Taking forward the same understanding, on the event of ‘World Day against Child Labour’, Akshaya Patra launched #HungryForSchool, a campaign to raise awareness about the need of food for education. It is needed to be realised by all that well-equipped classrooms are not the main criteria to keep the needy section of the society in school. Rather, it’s the one wholesome and fresh mid-day meal on each school day that incentivises the children to come to school and receive education.

Mid-day meal programme in Odisha

 The Akshaya Patra Foundation has been implementing the mid-day meal programme in Odisha since June 2006. As a NGO in Orissa, the Foundation provides mid-day meal in three locations of Odisha namely Puri, Nayagarh and Rourkela. Together it feeds 121,242 children every day. It operates both centralised and decentralised kitchen model to implement the mid-day meal in Odisha.

Akshaya Patra providing nutritious food for children India

 

The Akshaya Patra Foundation is a NGO in India that provides mid-day meals to around 1.39 million children pursuing their studies in over 10,600 Government schools. The mission of providing nutritious food for children began way back in June 2000. Akshaya Patra since then has been a subject of study by various national and international organisations and universities. In a recent study conducted by a student group from School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Lisbon, Akshaya Patra was chosen as an organisation for their curriculum research project titled ‘India: Domestic and International Political Agenda— an explanatory approach to a Chaos Theory for International Politics: India and the Butterfly Effect’.

Support Akshaya Patra, an NGO in Visakhapatnam

 The Akshaya Patra Foundation is one among the many nonprofit organizations in India.  Apart from 21 other locations Akshaya Patra is operational as an NGO in Visakhapatnam too. Providing mid-day meal to around 1.39 million Government school children across India, it also reaches out to Anganwadi centres in Visakhapatnam and Hyderabad. As an NGO in Visakhapatnam, Akshaya Patra feeds 5,249 children in 7 Government schools.

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The Akshaya Patra Foundation is an Indian NGO headquartered at Bangalore, Karnataka. The role of this NGO has been significant in implementing and spreading awareness about the Mid-Day Meal Scheme. The Mid-Day Meal Scheme is an initiative of Government of India to provide free school lunch to Government school children. This Indian NGO has been serving the children of India since 2000. The journey of 14 years has enabled this NGO to serve 1.39 million children every day. Operating in nine Indian states, this Indian NGO has received the accolade of being the world’s largest NGO run mid-day meal programme.

Akshaya Patra participated in Code for India Hackathon

The Akshaya Patra Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation in India providing mid-day meal to children of Government schools. This not-for-profit organisation in India partnered with Code for India to address some of the challenges faced by the organisation in providing mid-day meal and find solutions for the same. A not-for-profit organisation itself, Code for India provides solutions to better the lives of economically marginalised by employing professionally certified engineers. For this, Code for India partners with various non-profits and NGOs to reach out to different sections of the society.

Feed a hungry child at just Rs. 750 for an entire year!

 'Hungry for school' sounds better than 'hungry for food'! This connotation brings to fore the fact that when the stomach is full the child will want to learn and grow. The concentration and focus of the child will be on receiving the best of education and not worry about earning a square meal. Every child despite of his or her economic background has the right to food and education. To achieve this equality, The Akshaya Patra Foundation provides 'unlimited food for education' to children of Government schools so that they don't have to worry about at least one meal time each day. It clearly understands the correlation between food and education and leaves no stone unturned when it comes to providing food for children.

Akshaya Patra Foundation kitchens- Beyond just cooking!

The Akshaya Patra Foundation kitchens don’t just cook; rather they continuously equip themselves to cook efficiently. Each year all the kitchens receive training and inputs to function smoothly and effectively. This approach has motivated the kitchens of Akshaya Patra to be grounds for innovations. These innovations act as forward steps to transforming the working environment in The Akshaya Patra Foundation kitchens so as to improve and enable themselves to serve many more children. Some of the recent key improvements are as follows:

• 8 Akshaya Patra Kitchens scored more than 90% in GMP Audits (Good Manufacturing Practices Audits)    
• More than 1400 Kaizen Thunders were implemented across all kitchens 
•  More than 15 Six Sigma Projects were completed which resulted in process and efficiencies resulting in significant savings   
• 9 Quality Metrics were designed related to Raw Material Quality, Storage Quality, Production Process Quality, Vehicle Quality and Customer Satisfaction and began improvisations of the same.  
•  More than 2500 Staff Hours were engaged in Quality & Food Safety training.
• More than 10,000 man hours were engaged in Personal Hygiene and Food Safety & Quality training.

NGO in Vadodara launches BioUrja plant

The Akshaya Patra Foundation kitchens have been making efforts in employing eco-friendly and green technologies in preparing mid-day meals for millions of children every day. The year 2013 saw the launch of Biogas plant in the Foundation’s Vasanthapura kitchen located in Bangalore. Following the trend, Akshaya Patra launched ‘BioUrja’ Plant at its Vadodara kitchen in Gujarat on 22nd May 2014.

World Day against Child Labour

 

The World Day Against Child Labour is an official initiative of International Labour Organization (ILO). It was first launched in the year 2000 with the aim of spreading awareness about the issue of child labour, the hazardous situations that a child goes through and the alarming need to prevent child labour. Globally World Day Against Child Labour is observed on June 12th every year. Child labour is prevalent worldwide and this day brings together every sector of the society right from government authorities to civil society to participate and actively get involved in tackling child labour.

Help Akshaya Patra take the ngos role in India to the next level

There are many nonprofit organisations in India, but one that stands out far above the rest is The Akshaya Patra Foundation. Exemplifying ngos role in India, this Foundation has identified a dire need in the Indian society and works tirelessly for a solution. With a vision that no child in India shall be deprived of education because of hunger, Akshaya Patra today serves 1.39 million children the mid-day meal, across 10,631 government schools on every working day. Reaching out to the public for support in order to eliminate class room hunger in India, it is not surprise that there are many who leap at the opportunity to donate for charity like this organisation.

Awards for The Akshaya Patra Foundation

The Akshaya Patra Foundation’s Annual Report has been the recipient of many accolades in the category of non-profit organisation awards. Along with being the first NGO to be honoured a place in ICAI’s Hall of Fame; it has also received appreciation from International Awards. The Summit Creative Award (SCA) is one such noteworthy award. The Akshaya Patra Foundation received Silver for the second time in a row in the category of non-profit organisations award.  This award for Akshaya Patra is recognition for the creative presentation of its Annual Report 2012-13.

Donate to this Non profit organization in India and help us transform lives

The role of NGOs is to combat the problems being faced by the society. By gathering public support to a cause, they work toward finding a long-term, sustainable solution to the problems plaguing the growth and prosperity of the citizens. One such non profit organisation in India that works toward the welfare of the society and the development of children in particular is The Akshaya Patra Foundation. Feeding over 1.39 million children across India every school day with the nutritious mid-day meal, the organisation is well known for its effort to feed hungry child.

Akshaya Patra, charity in Karnataka, an expert group member - 3rd State Human Development Report, 2014!

Akshaya Patra, NGO implementing Mid-Day Meal Scheme was one among the expert group members in workshop organised by Karnataka State Planning Department on 29th March, 2014. The Planning Department in collaboration with UNDP – Planning commission organised workshop, in order to bring a third State Human Development Report, 2014 under the project “Human Development: Towards Bridging Inequalities”. The charity in Karnataka was part of the workshop to provide its inputs on the Food and Nutrition section of the report. The organisation that feed hungry children has been invited to be part of the discussion, due to its rich experience in serving food over years.

World Environment Day

 World Environment Day 2014 falls on Thursday, 5th of June. This day is dedicated towards raising awareness on positive and sustainable environmental actions to protect the nature and thereby protecting the planet Earth at large. World Environment Day is an initiative of the United Nations to counter environmental issues like climate change, global warming and the like. The theme for World Environment Day 2014 is ‘Small Islands and Climate Change’ and the official slogan for World Environment Day 2014 is 'Raise Your Voice Not the Sea Level’.