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Sponsor school meals of 200,000 children in India

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Summary

The school meal programme aims to reduce hunger and promote education of underprivileged children in India by providing freshly cooked, hot nutritious meals in schools everyday.

This project is no longer accepting donations.

Received $5,143 from 94 donations from people like:

Jackie

(Anon.)

Raj Kummar

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

large number of children in India do not have access to schools because of hunger and poverty.Inability to access even one nutritional meal per day severely limits their capacity to concentrate in classroom and receive proper education, and often results in dropping out. A full meal promotes education, health and food security of poor children and helps to break the cycle of poverty, hunger and illeteracy.

Activities

Food is cooked in technology intensive centralised kitchens and distributed to schools in custom built vans. Impact assessment of the programme is done by third party organisations based on feedbacks of children and other indicators like enrollment.

Funding Information

This project has been retired and is no longer accepting donations.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

A wholesome meal continues to be the most powerful incentive for children to come to schools retaining them in schools and helping them to perform better in schools. The long term impact would be incresead literacy and reduction of poverty and hunger

Project Message

Akshaya Patra is touching the lives of hundreds of thousands of students all over India and making a significant contribution in keeping poor children in schools. They are an inspiration to all of us.
- Kalyan Mohan, Vice President & Head, Cognizant Technologies