The Akshaya Patra Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation headquartered in Bengaluru, India. The organisation strives to fight issues like hunger and malnutrition in India, by implementing the Mid-Day Meal Scheme in the government schools and government-aided schools.
Akshaya Patra aims not only to fight hunger but also to bring children to school. Since 2000, the organisation has worked towards reaching more children with wholesome food on every single school day. Akshay Patra Foundation supplies nutritive food to government primary schools with the moto of unlimited food for education
. Today Akshaya Patra is the world's largest (not-for-profit run) mid-day meal programme serving wholesome food to over 1.6 million children from 13,529 schools across 11 states in India. https://www.akshayapatra.org
Established as a Centre of Excellence of the Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change, Government of India.
