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Friday, July 23rd, 2010 – I remember my schooldays when my mom used to wake up early in the morning to prepare me for school. The pain she used to take to prepare and pack my lunch making sure that the food remains hot, tasty and does not lose the nutritious value. Similarly all the parents have a hard enough time working to get their kids to eat well at home and get all the more upset thinking they don’t have any control over what they eat at school.
But I was bowled over to see the healthy and nutritious lunch served in the Government schools by The Akshaya Patra Foundation. The lunch necessarily includes a 3 item menu which changes almost every day. As children do not like to eat rice daily, the organization struggles to come up with different rice based items such as Idly, Bisi bele bath to cater to the child’s taste and at the same time maintain the nutrition count.
The organization provides lunch to 1.2 million children every day across 8 states and 18 locations in India. The foundation serves the meal to 1.2 million children exactly the way we would serve our children at home. The food is being transported to the schools in a custom built vehicle which keeps the food warm till it is served. Each food van has the capacity to carry lunch for 3,000 to 5,000 children.
Through this school meal program Madhu Pandit Dasa, the Chairman of The Akshaya Patra Foundation is tries to bring back children to school. The foundation’s aim is to reach out to 5 million children by 2020. Help them in their movement towards a hunger free nation. Join them now.
More details: http://www.akshayapatra.org
Akshaya Patra is doing a great work for human society. There is no question about it. Akshaya Patra !!! keep going like this….