Why CSR with Akshaya Patra?

 

Companies today have started to realise the long term importance of adopting a cohesive corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategy. To underline this, section 135 of The Companies Act, 2013 has made it mandatory that ‘every company with a net worth of INR 500 crores or more, and a turnover of INR 1000 crores or more, or a net profit of INR five crores or more’, must spend a minimum of two per cent of their net profits of the last three years on CSR.

Striving for Excellence

 

Let’s delve into the lives of one of our employees from The Akshaya Patra Foundation! Saudamini Sahoo from our decentralised kitchen at Nayagarh, Odisha, joined the organisation in 2013. She heard about the work the Foundation does in 2007, and had her heart set on joining Akshaya Patra in providing food for education to the underprivileged school children in her locality.

Howzat for healthy!

Jaga Pradhan currently studies in the fifth standard at the Vijayanagar Project Primary School in Puri. An energetic, vibrant young boy, Jaga enjoys coming to school to study Science and Literature above all his other subjects. His older brother works as a daily wage earner, while his mother is a construction worker. Both Jaga and his younger brother attend the same school and are beneficiaries of The Akshaya Patra mid-day meal.