The 'big' small story so far...
One day (about a decade ago) Mr Madhu Pandi Das from ISKON and Mr Mohandas Pai (Infosys-HR Head) visited ISKON temple near Bangalore.And saw the huge automatic kitchen of the temple (like one in Shirdi Sai Baba temple). And they thought of using this innovation to feed poor children in India. A large number of Indian population is not getting sufficient nutritious diet and for children some time this is even as critical as life and death.
While thinking on the solution they also tried to involve one of the other important domain - Education. Finally a solution 'school mid day meal' is devised. They started providing meal to poor kids at schools (mostly government school) so that a dual goal of nutritious food and a quality education both can be achieved.
Keep in mind its a NGO running by the support of multiple individual support , multiple very small donors , ISKON and governmental add. Let the today's data talk about them now.
Covering 7 states in India having huge kitchens at 16 locations only
A mammoth number of 10,74,112 children get full meal every day at their school
With such an optimized approach per meal cost is only approx INR 4.5
Next target is to reach the 50,00,000 mark
Added advantage is more attendance in school , and better study levels
What can i do ?
Feel good and positive about this
Visit http://www.akshayapatra.org/
With only 1200 Ru , single boy and single girl get mid day meal for a whole year
Spread the word across to your friends and encourage them
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Take Care and eat well.
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