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A Mid-Day Meal A Day,

Keeps Hunger Away

Providing a hot, nutritious school lunch to underserved children who may not receive another meal that day.

A $20 Gift Feeds A Child For 1 Year!

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Who We Are

Akshaya Patra (Aak-sh-ayah pa-tra) is the world’s largest NGO school meal program, providing mid-day school lunches to over 2.1+ million children in over 21,000 schools across India every day.

Akshaya Patra USA engages thousands of volunteers, youth ambassadors, and donors in the United States to raise funds and awareness in support of the Foundation’s mission to end childhood hunger.

Our Programs & Initiatives

Mid-Day Meal

Delivering over 2.4M hot, nutritious meals every day so children focus on education rather than hunger.

Aanganwadi

Providing nutritious meals to infants, children, pregnant and lactating mothers

Digital Education

Private-Public partnership providing free access to digital education resources.

Scholarship

Financial assistance to pursue post-secondary education.

91 Cents of Every $1 Feeds The Children

VISION & MISSION

Vision

No child in India shall be deprived of education because of hunger

Mission

To feed 3 million children every day by 2025

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Akshaya Patra's First Crowd-funded Kitchen

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Next-generation Kitchen Innovation

Operating 67 Kitchens Across 15 States

60,000 Meals in Under 6 Hours

60,000+ Chapattis per Hour

6,000 Employees, 30% Women

Six Sigma, Kaizen, blockchain, and IoT enabled

Saves 788.95 Megatons of carbon per year

1,200 Liters of Rice, Sambar, & Daal every 15 min.

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We help over 2 million children in India

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Fremont, CA 94539

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