The Akshaya Patra Foundation, the worlds largest NGO-run midday meal program, distributes hot, nutritious meals daily to over one million underserved children in over 5,700 government schools in seven states in India. A public-private partnership, Akshaya Patra combines good management, innovative technology and smart engineering to deliver school lunch at a cost of $28 per child per year. For many 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. President Barack Obama heralded the program in a letter as an imaginative approach that has the potential to serve as a model for other countries.