Campaign Overview

The Akshaya Patra Foundation started its mid-day meal programme in June, 2000 by providing free mid-day meals to 1,500 children in 5 Government schools in Bengaluru, Karnataka. Over the past 18 years, the constant support from the Government of India, various State Governments and associated organizations has enabled the programme to grow by leaps and bounds. Today, this organization feeds free mid-day meals to 1.8 million school children in 16,856 Government schools and Government-aided schools. The organization currently has its presence in 51 kitchens across 12 states & 2 Union territory in India. This not-for-profit organization has been conferred as the world’s largest NGO-run mid-day meal programme. Hunger and Illiteracy are India’s two major challenges. There is a serious malnutrition case in India with the World Bank’ estimate of 60 million children in India, being underweight. Hunger is an obstacle to child’s health, education and survival. A recent UNICEF report states that more than 80 million children drop out before completing 8 years of age and over 8 million children are out of school. Akshaya Patra is focused on eliminating classroom hunger and attracting more children (enrolment) to schools and ensure to keep them in school (reduce dropout rate) by feeding a filling, nutritious mid-day meal, every school day. This is in partnership with the Government of India and all the various State Governments.

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