| | | | | child's taste and at the same time maintain the nutrition |
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| I remember my schooldays when my mom used to | | | | |
| wake up early in the morning to prepare me for | | | | The organization provides lunch to 1.2 million children |
| school. The pain she used to take to prepare and | | | | every day across 8 states and 18 locations in India. |
| pack my lunch making sure that the food remains hot, | | | | The foundation serves the meal to 1.2 million children |
| tasty and does not lose the nutritious value. Similarly all | | | | exactly the way we would serve our children at home. |
| the parents have a hard enough time working to get | | | | The food is being transported to the schools in a |
| their kids to eat well at home and get all the more | | | | custom built vehicle which keeps the food worm till it is |
| upset thinking they don't have any control over what | | | | served. Each food van has the capacity to carry lunch |
| they eat at school. | | | | for 3,000 to 5,000 children. |
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| But I was bowled over to see the healthy and | | | | Through this school meal program Madhu Pandit Dasa, |
| nutritious lunch served in the Government schools by | | | | the Chairman of The Akshaya Patra Foundation is |
| The Akshaya Patra Foundation. The lunch necessarily | | | | tries to bring back children to school. The foundation's |
| includes a 3 item menu which changes almost every | | | | aim is to reach out to 5 million children by 2020. Help |
| day. As children do not like to eat rice daily, the | | | | them in their movement towards a hunger free nation. |
| organization struggles to come up with different rice | | | | Join them now. |
| based items such as Idly, Bisi bele bath to cater to the | | | | |