| | | | | every day spreading across 8 states and 18 locations. |
| Madhu Pandit Dasa, Chairman of The Akshaya Patra | | | | The organization with the vision: ‘No child in India |
| Foundation- world's largest school meal program | | | | shall be deprived of education because of hunger' has |
| believes that we can eliminate poverty from the root | | | | an ambitious aim to reach out to 5 million children by |
| only by the powerful virtue of education. | | | | 2020. |
| Madhu Pandit Dasa says that a hungry child cannot | | | | Madhu Pandit Dasa with an outstanding academic |
| afford to go to school and learn his lessons. Hunger | | | | career, graduating from one of the India's leading |
| forces them to do menial work in order to meet their | | | | institute (IIT Madras), has a firm belief that we can fight |
| ends. Food is the incentive which can bring these | | | | poverty only by education and this school meal |
| out-of-school children to the classrooms where they | | | | program will bring about the enduring transformation |
| ought to be. Akshaya Patra Foundation an initiative of | | | | that India needs. |
| Iskcon Bangalore started in the year 2000 catering to | | | | By serving nutritious meal in the school Akshaya Patra |
| only 1500 children of Bangalore. Today the foundation | | | | not only combat hunger but also help the children |
| has grown to a stage when it feeds 1.2 million children | | | | pursue their education. |