The Akshaya Patra Foundation has always considered relief requests on high priority. Over the last 15 years of its existence, Akshaya Patra has been seen as an active relief provider in terms of food apart from its core cause of providing mid-day meal to Government school children.
Akshaya Patra has been continuously striving towards providing food relief to the earthquake affected citizens of Nepal. Following the first devastating earthquake on the 25th of April, the Foundation send across 100,000 cooked meals to Nepal and later an additional 2,500 kilograms of emergency food aid was also provided to the region. The two high magnitude earthquakes each of 7.8 and 7.3 left the Himalayan kingdom in a devastating turmoil. The decision and conceptualization of setting up an Akshaya Patra kitchen came by after a joint committee comprising of members from Jamsetji Tata Trust, Sipradian Sahayata Sanstha and Akshaya Patra witnessed the unsafe and unhygienic condition where women are cooking food with the available materials. Over 55,000 Nepalese citizens have gone homeless and there is considerable shortage of food and clean drinking water.
In view of the needful situation, The Jamsetji Tata Trust requested Akshaya Patra to set up and begin operation in the affected areas. Thus with the support of the Jamsetji Tata Trust and Sipradian Sahayata Sanstha, Akshaya Patra is constructing its kitchen facility in Bhaktapur, a location 14 kilometres away from Kathmandu. This Akshaya Patra kitchen will have the capacity to provide up to 100,000 meals per day to the affected people of Nepal. This kitchen will come by as huge relief aid in terms of safe, hygienic and healthy meals for the people of the Himalayan kingdom.
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