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Nearly 2,500 children of government schools in Kamrup district will now be able to consume warm food as part of their midday meals everyday. The Akshaya Patra Foundation, an NGO engaged in providing midday meals to government schools in Kamrup district, today added two more food distribution vehicles, a move which will see them reach an additional 2,500 schoolgoing children everyday, reports the Telegraph in Kolkata.
India is home to more undernourished children than any other country. The Mid-Day Meal Scheme, a large-scale school-lunch program, feeds 120 million children across India. Narasimha Das is on his way to feed 169,379 hungry children. Das is in charge of an industrial-size kitchen in Vrindaban, about a three-hour drive from India's capital, New Delhi. Akshaya Patra is thus featured in the TIME for kids magazine.
Iskcon has come clean in implementation of the Akshara Dasoha (mid-day meal) programme in Karnataka. The legislature committee hasn't found any fault with Iskcon, be it in utilization of government grants, collection of foreign funds or real estate business. Congress MLA D K Shiva Kumar, during the legislature session on July 23, 2009, had charged Iskcon with misusing funds, reports the Times of India.
Shankar Mahadevan- the Goodwill Ambassador of The Akshaya Patra Foundation hosted an evening in Mumbai to raise awareness about the critical challenge of hunger and how Akshaya Patra is working towards countering it. Akshaya Patra is a NGO that implements the mid-day meal programme in more than 9000 Government schools. It feeds 1.3 million children across India every day. This event was hosted in aid of the Foundation and speaking on the occasion Shankar said, ““I hope everybody joins us in support of Akshaya Patra as the programme is so impactful. I feel blessed to be a part of the Akshaya Patra family.”
The Akshaya Patra Foundation in association with the Department of Public Education, Government of Karnataka recently organised a day-long seminar titled ‘Suraksha’. The seminar focused on Food Safety and Standards Act (FSSA), the implications for the MDM Scheme and the challenges in implementation.
Hunger makes dreams thinner. India has close to 8.1 million children (www.worldbank.org.in) who forgo education to earn their daily meal. “Feed the Hunger” is an initiative by Akshaya Patra in an effort to give children a chance to nourish their dreams. For this reason, we gave an opportunity to the children served by our programme to contour and colour their hopes. The result was vibrant, original and delightful artworks that chronicle their ambitions.
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