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Corporation Bank, Bangalore donated a mid-day meal distribution vehicle to The Akshaya Patra Foundation. This is the second time that one of India’s oldest bank has donated to the Foundation. Ajai Kumar, Chairman & Managing Director and Amar Lal Daultani, Executive Director Corporation Bank accompanied by other top officials visited Akshaya Patra to flag-off the mid-day meal delivery vehicle donated by the Bank.
Dr. L Rafael Reif – President, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), his wife Mrs. Christine Reif along with Dr. Arundhati Tuli Banerjee – Senior Director at MIT visited Akshaya Patra Jaipur kitchen recently. They spent a couple of hours visiting the kitchen facility and the process with much interest.
The Akshaya Patra Foundation, Jaipur was awarded The Community Leadership Award 2012 for its exemplary work in the mid-day meal programme and the Akshaya Kalewa programme. The Community Leadership Award is a platform to recognise community leaders, thereby creating an ecosystem for development and encouragement of such leaders who will contribute towards the growth of the state.
Akshaya Patra is the world’s largest NGO-run mid-day meal program. The Foundation serves over 1.3 million underprivileged children with freshly prepared, nutritious meals every day. There are many children for whom the lunch provided by Akshaya Patra is the only complete meal for the day.
World leaders in Millennium summit committed themselves to cutting by half by the year 2015 the number of people living in extreme poverty. The most vulnerable are the children. Every statistics point at children, How can we make a difference? We at AkshayaPatra are trying our best to reach as many children as possible, you could too. Join us today!!
It’s October 16th, that day of the year when the world observes World food day. This day brings together many nations with a goal to spread awareness and to arrive at solutions to grueling issues of hunger and poverty. Adopting many measures as per the themes such as ‘food and nutrition’, ‘the right to food’, ‘united against hunger’ are quintessential for India due to the hunger crisis in the country. The children bare the brunt of the prevailing condition and Akshaya Patra among other triumph to fight against hunger.
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