Akshaya Patra’s Vision: No child in India shall be deprived of education because of hunger.

The Akshaya Patra Foundation is a leading organization that addresses two of the most immediate challenges facing India, hunger and education, through its school lunch program. Akshaya Patra feeds one million underprivileged children daily in government run schools in India.

Averaged nationally, the cost for Akshaya Patra to feed a child in India a daily meal for an entire year is $31. With the government subsidy, $23 feeds two children.

Akshaya Patra is the world's largest NGO-run midday meal program. 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. For many of the children this is their only complete meal for the day. This gives them an incentive to come to school, stay in school and provides them with the necessary nutrients they need to develop their cognitive abilities to focus on learning.

Through kitchens specially designed by engineers to leverage technology and sourcing its food stocks from local markets, Akshaya Patra is able to reduce costs associated with transportation and food spoilage while supporting the local economy. In a short time, the foundation has grown to become the largest, and certainly most innovative, school lunch program in the world. Akshaya Patra is a great example of what a non-profit organization can achieve-- a cost effective, scalable solution with high quality service delivery.

Recent Akshaya Patra Accomplishments:

Named the winner of the Tech Museum 2009 Tech Award in the Microsoft Education Category.

Voted number five for the 2008 American Express Members Project out of 1,190 submissions and three rounds of voting. Akshaya Patra was awarded $100,000 in funding from American Express.

Featured at the Clinton Global Initiative in 2007 and 2008.

Harvard Business School developed a case study for its MBA curriculum on Akshaya Patra's model for precise time management.

An AC Nielsen Impact Study of the program showed improved school enrollment, retention rates and classroom performance.

Six of the Akshaya Patra kitchens have received FSMS ISO 22000:2005certification. These include the North Bangalore, South Bangalore, Jaipur, Ahmedabad, Hubli-Dharwad and Vrindavan kitchens – a first of its kind achievement for a non-government organization. The certification has been acquired in accordance with Codex Alimentarius Commission and ISO 22000:2005 (the International Food Safety Management System).

CNBC-TV in India awarded Akshaya Patra with the 2008 India Business Leader Award for Social Enterprise of the Year.

Included in the Limca Book of Records for being the world's largest non-government midday meal program.

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Our auditors are M/s BSR & Co, a renowned audit firm.