Akshaya Patra Foundation USA
http://foodforeducation.org
Charity Category:
Hunger & Poverty
Akshaya Patra Foundation is the world’s largest NGO-run midday meal program, providing meals to 1.4 million children in government run schools in India daily. It costs $15 to feed a child for a year.
A public-private partnership, Akshaya Patra combines good management, innovative technology and smart engineering to deliver school lunch at a fraction of the cost of similar programs in other parts of the world. The program started in 2000 by feeding 1,500 children from a temporary kitchen in Bangalore, India. Currently, we distribute freshly cooked, healthy meals daily to 1.3 million underprivileged children in 8,000 government schools through 19 kitchens in eight states in India.