The Beginning Of Akshaya Patra Foundation

The Beginning Of Akshaya Patra Foundation

All this while, we have been saying inspirational studies about little kids who are able to build their dreams mainly due to the free mid - day meal that they get from The Akshaya Patra Foundation. Now let ' s take a peek into how this entire timetable that feeds 1. 3 million children in our country came about. Let us get an insight into how the idea of a mid - day meal scheme grew in leaps and reason to become Akshaya Patra Foundation.

While on a recent visit to the first five schools that The Akshaya Patra Foundation started forceful at, we met Venu Vadana Gopal Das, the individual who went in search of schools that required the free mid - day meal facility. " Once the idea was conceptualised, I was asked to go traverse surrounding areas in Bangalore and find out about the need for a mid - day meal plan. I knew that the outskirts and rural areas will be our prime targets. I visited Government schools in areas identical Peenya, Chikkabidarakally and Makali and was moved by the plight of the kids there " he reminisced.
" Then we approached these schools and recorded the attendance and started sufficient. It was just five schools that Akshaya Patra Foundation served at in the beginning. It was on 3rd July, 2000 that we first fed to these schools; a total of 1500 children, " he oral.

When asked about the major challenges that Akshaya Patra Foundation faced in the beginning, Venu Vadana Gopal Das verbal, " Our main challenge was the want of vessels for rice and sambar, and a vehicle to transport the food. We had to hire transport vehicles from outside and send food from The Akshaya Patra Foundation. However, thanks to the support from the Government and also volunteers who donated generously and today we are able to feed 1. 3 million children. Akshaya Patra Foundation hopes to feed all the children in our country and mop out classroom hunger. "
The Akshaya Patra Foundation implements the mid - day meal scheme subservient the offices of Central Government and various State Governments. Though the principal role of Akshaya Patra Foundation is to stake mid - day meal, yet it very much emphasizes on education too. " No child in India shall be deprived of education over of fancy " is the vision balance of the Akshaya Patra Foundation.
Currently, the total span of Akshaya Patra Foundation can be witnessed in 19 locations of 9 states in India namely Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Karnataka, Odisha, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. On the whole the Akshaya Patra Foundation in India feeds in more than 9000 Government schools, every day.

Apart from the primary mid - day meal diary, Akshaya Patra Foundation has also taken up other feeding initiatives congeneric:

I. Feeding expecting and lactating mothers
II. Feeding in smashing schools
III. Subsidized lunch for the economically backward
IV. Feeding runaway children
V. Feeding in senescent - age homes
VI. Feeding the left
VII. Catastrophe relief


Social initiatives selfsame after - class tuitions, life skills schedule, community health camps, scholarship programmes, catastrophe relief and health check - up camps also find its plant in the Akshaya Patra Foundation.

The many positive impacts the mid - day meal schedule has brought about are substantial. Increase in number of primary school enrolments, prominent daily school attendance, better concentration and performance level of the children and visible decrease in school drop - out scale are the core areas of achievement of this calendar. Through the implementation of the mid - day meal schedule Akshaya Patra Foundation strives to counter the twin challenges of hunger and illiteracy.

The mission of Akshaya Patra Foundation is to feed 5 million children by 2020 and through the motto of " Unlimited food for education " Akshaya Patra Foundation is gradually treading towards nourishing the future of India.