About the Akshaya Patra Foundation - The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.

The Akshaya Patra Foundation, a non-profit, Bangalore-based secular trust, evolved the free meal 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 Endeavour covering over 11,98,206 children in over 4,500 government, government aided schools and anganwadis (day care centers) in 18 locations spread across Eight states in India, day after day. This is amongst the largest school meal NGO run program in the world. The foundation expects to reach a magical figure of five million children by 2020.

Six days a week, without a stop, the foundation provides unlimited mid day meal, nutritious, hygienically cooked noon meals in government schools and government-run day-care centers (anganwadis), Ushering in a technology-intensive operating model that ensures high-quality, hygienic food on the one hand and increases internal efficiencies on the other, the program has brought about policy changes at the state government levels and created a new image for mid day meal in India. 

Akshaya Patra is an eloquent demonstration of public private partnership as it is run with part subsidies from the government, besides financial support from corporate and individual philanthropists. The daily expenses: around Rs 35 Lakh!

The program is independently governed by a Board of Trustees, an Advisory Panel consisting of 

professionals from the corporate world and bureaucracy, dedicated employees and a team of volunteers. The program is advised in rigorous accounting standards and services by KPMG to ensure transparency and accountability to all its donors, Akshaya Patra for Poor children’s and Free food for Poor children’s.

A study in the year 2006 by AC Nielsen Org Marg, has vouchsafed for the efficacy of the program in increasing attendance in schools, improving nutritional status of these children, enhancing their learning abilities and reducing drop out rates. The foundation’s work has been praised by all quarters and a recent feather in its cap has been the study conducted by Harvard Business School.

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