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Children > Sponsor school meals of 200,000 children in India (#3304)
SummaryThe 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.
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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.
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.
Total Funding Received to Date: $5,128
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $1,874,872
Total Funding Goal: $1,880,000
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
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
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
Moushumi Banerjee
Fundraising Manager
H K Hill, Chord Road
Bangalore, Karnataka 560 010
India
+91 80 23471956
Email:
The Akshaya Patra Foundation
703 SHapath-I SG Highway
Ahmendabad,
Gujarat
380054
India
+91 79 66058600
http://www.akshayapatra.org
This project is located in India
and can also be found under Children.
For more information about India, read the Human Development Report on India or the Wikipedia entry for India.
This project was last updated on November 6, 2009.
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on July 21, 2009
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