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The League of American Communications Professionals (LACP) has honoured The Akshaya Patra Foundation with a Vision Award in Gold in recognition of Akshaya Patra´s 2011-12 Annual Report. This is the second consecutive LACP Award for the Foundation. The 2011/12 Vision Awards Annual Report Competition received more than 5,500 entries from across more than two-dozen countries and across all industry types.
An article on the operations of The Akshaya Patra Foundation in Hyderabad was published in a recent issue of ‘Eenadu Daily’- a popular news paper in Hyderabad. This article gives a comprehensive picture of Akshaya Patra’s vision, mission, mid-day meal programme, kitchen operations and organizational highlights. Akshaya Patra is working towards its vision of “No child in India shall be deprived of education because of hunger”. The Foundation aims at feeding 5 million children by 2020.
Chanchalapathi Dasa, Vice Chairman of The Akshaya Patra Foundation has been nominated as a member of the National Steering-cum-Monitoring Committee for Mid-Day Meal Programme. He will be one among the 13 members who have made significant contribution and have had considerable achievements in the area of Nutrition, Child Welfare, Community/ Women’s Mobilization, School Education, Child Health or School Mid-Day Meal.
With the advent of mobile technology and the boom in popularity of social networking sites, social media is also a challenging field to manage, opined experts in the social media from around the globe who participated in the two day conference held at the Hotel Royal Orchid in Bangalore.
Entusiastic volunteers who are part of the Information technology sector came together on a rainy Saturday to decode the internet for Akshaya Patra. Volunteers who attended ‘Code for a Cause’, an event which aimed to help non-profits get the best out of internet, walked into JAAGA in Bangalore around 11 am.
On a sunny morning of Sunday, a community of bloggers from the city of joy woke up to gather around for a cause. A cause focused at feeding 5 million under-privileged children by the end of this decade. Over 100 bloggers from Kolkata and around trickled in to support Akshaya Patra Foundation, the world’s largest NGO-run school mid day meal programme in continuing their magical endeavour of feeding almost 1.3 million kids across 18 locations in India.
"Feed the Hunger" Campaign Teaser
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"Ode to Billion" by Shankar Mahadevan and Javed Akthar
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Mohandas Pai Solving The Hunger Problem
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Akshaya Patra Feature In Bharat Bhagya Vidhata
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Audience feedback on Making A Man of an Ass
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