Akshaya Patra Foundation
Charity Category:
International
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.
http://foodforeducation.org