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The Akshaya Patra Foundation

The Akshaya Patra Foundation runs the world's largest school meal program, in collaboration with Indian central and state governments to combat childhood malnutrition and poverty stemming from lack of education.​

LocationIndia

Issue AreaEducation

Tax benefit eligibilityAU

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Our Mission

Our Mission is to feed 3 million children in India, every day. Our Vision is that no child in India should be deprived of education because of hunger.

The Need

Millions globally still face hunger, affecting children's growth and education. To combat this, Akshaya Patra focuses particularly on UN SDGs like Zero Hunger and Quality Education, by providing nutritious meals to under served children, enabling them to learn, grow, and realize their potential.​

The Solution

As of today, The Akshaya Patra Foundation feeds over 2 million students daily across 24,000 schools in 16 Indian states and 2 Union Territories via 75 state-of-the-art kitchens. We are also involved in providing emergency relief, nursery feeding, and educational scholarships for students.​

Our Impact

Akshaya Patra's Mid Day Meal program has served more than 4 billion cumulative free meals since 2000, done in partnership with Central and State Governments of India. Our milestones have been acknowledged and commemorated by The United Nations and organisations like the BBC and Nikkei Asia. ​

Akshaya Patra’s mid-day school meals programme is run as a public-private-partnership with the Indian Government, wherein we act as implementing partners for the PM Poshan Abhiyaan in India. This has been the result of significant investment of time, technology and engineering to ensure that Akshaya Patra’s network of centralised kitchens is always meeting a gold standard in safety, cost efficiency and innovation. Our emphasis on efficiency means it costs just 26 AUD to feed an Indian child for an entire year. Over the years, The Akshaya Patra Foundation’s work has been acknowledged and celebrated by various national and international Heads of State, as well as organisations like National Geographic and Harvard Business School.

About this Organization

LocationIndia
Issue AreaEducation

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