The Akshaya Patra Foundation Serves More Than One Lakh Meals to Flood Victims of Puri District

Published on: September 26th, 2008 12:02am by: veena



(OPENPRESS) September 26, 2008 -- The Akshaya Patra Foundation, a not-for-profit, Bangalore-based secular trust, evolved a free lunch program in schools in the year 2000. What started as a pilot project in five schools in Bangalore, feeding 1,500 children, has now grown into a mammoth endeavor reaching out to over 9.48 lakh children in over 4,600 government, government aided schools and anganwadis (day care centers) in 15 locations, across six states in India, day after day. Currently the Foundation reaches to the underprivileged children in Bangalore, Hubli-Dharwad, Bellary, Mangalore and Mysore in Karnataka, Jaipur, Nathdwara and Baran in Rajasthan, Vrindavan and Mathura district in Uttar Pradesh, Puri and Nayagarh in Orissa, Gandhinagar and Ahemedabad in Gujarat and Raipur in Chattisgarh.

The foundation reaches out to more than 30 thousand underprivileged children in Puri and above 12000 underprivileged Children of Nayagarh in Orissa.