The Akshaya Patra Foundation is the world’s largest Mid-Day
Meal Programme. The Foundation was borne out of a desire that children should
not have to choose between hunger and education. Therefore from the vision that
‘No child in India shall be deprived of
education because of hunger’ Akshaya Patra was started in the year 2000.
Beginning with feeding just 1,500 children across 5 schools in Bengaluru, today
the Foundation has grown to feed over 1.4 million children across 24 locations,
and 10 states of India.
Akshaya Patra aims to end classroom hunger in
India through mid-day meal programme. Leveraging
technology to facilitate large scale cooking in a short amount of time, The
Akshaya Patra Foundation has served as a case study to prestigious institutes
for its operations model. Based on a successful Public-Private Partnership
model with the Central and State Governments of India, corporates, donors and
other stake holders, the Foundation has managed to scale up and sustain its
operations over the past 15 years.
The Akshaya Patra Foundation also uses innovative technology to
maintain absolute hygiene and efficiency in its practices. 22 of the 24
kitchens are centralised, and are highly mechanised. This reduces human contact
with the food to a large extent, ensuring that the food remains safe and
hygienic throughout the cooking process. At Akshaya Patra it is also understood
that the food must be enjoyable too, therefore the organisation follows a North
and South Indian menu to suit the local palate.
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