Akshaya Patra Foundation feeds flood victims

The Akshaya Patra Foundation has come forward in a big way to help the flood-hit people of Yamuna Pusta and nearby areas in New Delhi by feeding them with cooked meals. It is a not-for-profit, Bangalore-based secular trust.

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THE AKSHAYA Patra Foundation, the world’s largest Non-Government Organisation (NGO)-run school meal programme, feeds over 9.48 lakh children across the country everyday. The foundation has come forward in a large way to help the flood-hit people of Yamuna Pusta and nearby areas by feeding them with cooked meals since September 26.

This foundation is a not-for-profit, Bangalore-based secular trust, which evolved a free lunch programme 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 endeavour reaching out to over 9.48 lakh children in over 4,700 government-aided schools and anganwadis (day-care centres) in 15 locations, across five states in India, day after day. Currently, the foundation reaches out 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.