Mobile App to Help You Feed Millions of Children

Light often shines the brightest in the dark. Our passing world is full of these lights too. Yet your packed schedules keep you away from following your heart. Thus NGOs in India such as Akshaya Patra make a difference by facilitating contributions in the most convenient way possible.

We’ve tasted and seen for ourselves that online fundraising using a mobile application for our Mid-Day Meal Programme is the most successful and trending non-profit fundraising idea today. What’s refreshing is we are not alone – many Indian non-profits are using disruptive technologies experimenting with fundraising ideas. Here’s why:

Easy to Access

The hassle of doing paper work, visiting offices, delayed responses and piles of forms is often a turn off. Having a charity app that is one click away makes it easier for you to stand for a cause. With Akshaya Patra mobile app, you may fill in the details and donate using an Indian or International account or you could try wire transfer.

Trustworthy

When you take a step for a cause, surely you would like to know if it is being put to good use. Charity mobile apps such as the Akshaya Patra app bridge this gap and update you about what’s being done with the resources that are contributed.  This charity app informs you about the geographic locations, statistical data and the difference made. Also, you can view the pictures and videos of where your help is channelised. Moreover, donation apps come with a default transparency.

Assurance of Security

Try thinking of a scenario where you initiated an offline donation and lost the piece of paperwork. It can end your donation status in a limbo and you cannot control where your personal information will end up. Akshaya Patra’s Mobile app for donation cuts through this long process and allows people to donate through secure and authorised merchants. Since Akshaya Patra doesn’t allow other advertisements on the mobile app, no third party is involved. Your information is never compromised or manipulated and never falls into wrong hands.

As easy as it can get

Finally, the essence of charity app for online fundraising can be seen in its simplicity. Imagine spending hours trying to find that one NGO in India that you can help without any hassle and likely to have no success. That’s where the donation app comes in and lets you contribute to any campaign that you feel drawn to help. You can do it with a desire to help, to promote a cause and to be a small part of the big movement of change. Our Donation app is the easiest and most effective way to change lives in this millennial.

Akshaya Patra mobile app lets your appetite for technology and willingness to help the community come hand in hand. To lend a helping hand to a non-profit cause that provides wholesome meals to school children in India, download Akshaya Patra that is made for you. Changing lives is a click away - Apple and Play store.

Celebrating Rakhi with Bhojan Suraksha Bandhan!

"This full moon day our hearts are in brim, feeling of faith and serenity in mind."—APJ Abdul Kalam

One day, early in the morning, Vishnu, a 12-year-old boy, was helping his father at the paddy fields. His sister, Anu, was eagerly waiting for him to return home, as she could not wait to tie him rakhi – the sacred thread symbolising her sisterly love. As soon as he returned, Anu ran to her room, picked up the handmade rakhi and stood before him with joy. After a small ritual, Anu tied the rakhi on her brother’s wrist, praying for his well-being, while he took an oath to protect his sister from all evil.

On this day, which is a celebration of love between brothers and sisters, The Akshaya Patra Foundation, recognises the importance of this powerful relationship and the values of brotherhood which we can inculcate in our society to build a strong nation. Millions of school children are benefitted every day by Akshaya Patra’s core programme—to feed the hungry kids by providing mid-day meals in schools thereby encouraging them to continue their education.

Akshaya Patra, through its credible service to stop hunger, promises to protect our country’s children from hunger. It is with faith and righteousness that the organisation operates the world’s largest NGO-run school lunch programme in 10 states across India and provides mid-day meals to over 1.5 million children every day.

Let your big heart speak as you make a gift on Raksha Bandhan, of a contribution to our cause. Dedicate yourself to be the symbol of protection for our sisters and brothers of tomorrow. Go on and take the pledge to protect children from hunger—an evil that steals their right to a healthy life and education.

Akshaya Patra urges you to support education by feeding children nutritious meals every day. Today, you can choose to donate to Akshaya Patra to ensure a healthy future for India.

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Today’s Healthy Children, Tomorrow's Thinking Youth

“Hunger is not a problem, it is an obscenity. How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”  Anne Frank

What better occasion than the International Youth Day to ensure that our youth of the future are well-fed and well-educated in the present. International Youth day should be the day of joining hands with a non-profit organisation such as Akshaya Patra to provide food for the hungry across various schools in India. You may become a contributor to a substantially effective plan to turn children into healthy youth and to a wealthy Nation. But why should you do it?

Children and youth will lead future economic development

According to census 2011, India has 65% of the population below 35 years of age while United Nations survey says 28% is in the age group of 10-24 years. The youth percentage in India is highest compared to any country. It is said that where the youth percentage is rising, the economies of the country will soar, provided the children are being given good facilities for education, food and health. Only then it would lead to the economic growth and development of an individual as well as the country. The donation you make to feed the hungry directly contributes to the social development in children as well the economic development of the country.

Literacy is an incentive

The mid-day meal programme enables you to hit three targets with one arrow. Where a family is not able to feed children, the mid-day meal programme brings them healthy food along with creating opportunity for learning. Akshaya Patra wisely incorporates education and development in the children while feeding them. Many individuals, organisations and companies have developed a sense of ethics and social responsibility while volunteering with or donating to Akshaya Patra.

Today’s healthy children are tomorrow’s wise youth

There are many ways you can participate in a country’s social, cultural and economic development. When you contribute in the mid-day meal programme run by Akshaya Patra, you are contributing towards not only social or economic development but cultural growth as well. Your small act of kindness affects these children and propagates a kind and generous culture. This programme also opens roads to numerous youth development programmes.

Investment in your future

While contributing to Akshaya Patra, you also get to know where exactly your money is spent. We comply by International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and Transparency Indian Accounting Standards issued by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) and publish our annual report with financial audits. You also get tax exemptions and many CSR opportunities such as cause-marketing initiatives, strategy philanthropy through funds and in-kind contributions or events and sponsorships.

On this International Youth Day, donate to charity to transform children into healthy youth and safeguard our country’s fate, our future.

7 Simple Ways to use Akshaya Patra’s Mobile App

Some donate to feel better, others to make others’ lives better and some for tax exemptions, others for being a part of a cause. Whatever the reason, your intention is noble and we value that. As a leading NGO facilitating mid-day meal scheme in India, Akshaya Patra wishes to make the process of contribution easy and fun.

The Akshaya Patra mobile application makes it easy. Here’s how you can use it:

1. Search our kitchen locations

Our Reach is a feature that takes you to the Akshaya Patra map. A beautiful interface allows you to search all kitchen locations pan India exhibiting the total number of beneficiaries and beneficiary schools.

2. Create your own volunteer campaigns

Is your heart willing but the means don’t come by? The Campaign feature is for people like you who wish to contribute to Akshaya Patra once or continually but practically cannot. So rope in your friends and family via social sharing in your own personalized campaign. Upload your own JPEG campaign poster, set your targeted goal amount or the deadline for fund raising. Start giving with your own fundraising campaign now!

3. Donate hassle-free

You can also use the Akshaya Patra app to make hassle-free mobile donations just by the click of a button. A simple form lets you choose from India, International Donation and Wire Transfer along with details of Phone and Pan Card. Once you agree with the privacy policy and terms of donation, you can simply push the Donate button. That’s it, you have made your contribution. Of course, you are still entitled for tax exemptions.

4. Enjoy photos and videos

Seeing is believing. See for yourself the kind of impact our programmes have on the lives of millions of children. Go to Gallery and see the photos of event or mid-day meal schemes that we are running as an NGO in India. Watch videos of powerful stories of beneficiaries or all the action behind the kitchens of Akshaya Patra.

5. Know what’s happening

Get inspired and read about a ray of sunshine in the life of a child or in a remote school somewhere in your state. We are huge fans of transparency and want to let you inside the life and works of the Akshaya Patra Foundation. Through Updates and Impact features, you can easily learn and know where we are creating value in our mid-day meal schemes.

6. Shout out on social media

The Akshaya Patra app has several content feeds that are shareable. You may simply share your personalized campaign via Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus etc or inspire your community about the Foundation’s work by sharing photos and videos from our Gallery, Impact or Updates.

7. Reach us easily

The Contact feature will simply let you contact our Bengaluru, USA and UK offices. Have a question? Read through our FAQs. Want to suggest? Fill in the simple Feedback form.

Donating today is as simple as sharing an update on social media. Download Akshaya Patra mobile application today!

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