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Akshaya Patra means an ''Inexhaustible vessel' from which unlimited food can be drawn.
Facts & Numbers
Every year, 2.5 million children die in India, accounting for one in five deaths in the world. More than half of these deaths could be prevented if children were well nourished. India's progress in reducing child malnutrition is very slow.
The proven path to helping the poor, is by educating them. Providing food works as an important factor that encourages education; this in turn enables overall development transforming lives and communities.
A hungry child cannot be expected to have an urge for education.
We provide nutritious meals to about 1 million children - with a vision to encourage education amongst the poor.
Law for Action
Many impoverished children performed poorly in school due to short attention spans associated with extreme hunger. Other children either did not enroll in school, or dropped out at a young age choosing to seek work during the school day to earn money to feed themselves and their families.
Earlier, school meals was irregular and in many places non-existent. Responding to pressure from the people, the Supreme Court of India passed an order on November 28, 2001 which mandated: "Cooked midday meal is to be provided in all the government and government-aided primary schools in all the states."
Akshaya patra partakes this responsibility.
The Birth of Akshaya Patra
Thus evolved Akshaya Patra, a not-for-profit organization with a baseline "unlimited food for education".
We started feeding children in June 2000. What started as a pilot project in five schools in Bangalore, for 1,500 children, has now grown into a mammoth endeavor reaching out to 10,08,518 children in 16 locations across seven states.
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