India's Free Lunch

Since 2001 all Indian primary schools have provided pupils with a free midday meal. Seven years on truancy rates have been slashed, and child health is soaring. Western governments are taking note.
"Compared to ours, today's generation is better off," explains a cook at one school we visited. Vijay Bhaskar agrees, he is the food administrator in Karnataka, and reveals, "the number of children out of school has reduced from 1 million to 70,000." The scheme has also seen off the junk food industry, as Bhaskar comments, "any person who has seen children eating a hot meal knows that no cookie can substitute."

April 2008
Produced by SBS Dateline
Distributed by Journeyman Pictures

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[Recouner]

@suckcucker haha it's like you were here to justify that you have a pool... ok great.. now fuck off.. if you cant help the needy. who told you to..

[MrMohdrehankhan]

Really appreciates HARI-KRISHNA movements work! keep it up guys!

[johnnyfuxtik]

It's like children go into the world two ways, either trying to overcome poverty, or trying to justify it. I wish so much that each of us could simply have the mailing address of a hungry family abroad without first funding churches and lucrative western organizations.

[MEANER53]

udennyn ; sometimes, i feel like u , there's no hope 4 3rd world country, but I still debate that there r people like you n I, who could do something for some people. I kept pushing my Egyptians friends to remove their sob leader,it took 20 years but they did it. I know it's very hard to educate people, u can't teach an old dog a new trick . I

[410Ete]

Great stuff in my city we have a soup kitchen where in the morning people come to the park and get soup with sandwichs. At least we have the dole, in India it looks like these people have fuck all. Big thumbs up for the people doin this, food is a right not a privilege what that rickshaw driver makes in a day i would just buy a beer with. Heres 4 humanity

[udennyn]

@MEANER53 I agree 100% with you bro,yes there are people like them who can fall so low and these kind of people have major percentage,but what I mean to say is-India has got problems of very complex sort and I do not see any hope(discard all false media campaigns of India rising and all that) but at the same time in counties like America and Britain , the system is not sustainable..We(world) need improved green(nature friendly) capitalism where it benefits -people,profit of people and planet.

[MEANER53]

4. I wanted to do volunteer work in India but the host family seems so corrupted;hungry for American dollar, they asked me to pay $1200.00 per month for living expenses. How low a person scoots to hoard every penny from others. Americans will honor u if you do volunteer work,, Americans do lots of volunteer work, in fact, there r 1000s of volunteers who built beautiful homes 4 poor families. Do u think that Indians will ever do that 4 their own people. I doubt it.

[MEANER53]

3. U r well educated about USA, I wish that you use ur knowledge n make changes in your country, i know that it's hard but Gandhi did, so could u . Indians r smart; intelligent people but they have ego problem,that's y they are divided. look at your movie stars, how much they're contributing towards building the community. All the movie stars should adopt one poor village to help people. India should set up vigorous volunteer program in every corner of India like Americans..

[MEANER53]

2: undenny: ur reponse tells me that u r very intelligent; India needs people like u to make changes.American gov. always think of American people, in fact, they could steal from others to better their country; help their people. I am sure u know Y America declared war on Iraq, for it's resources.at least, they're thinking of America's future If Indians set aside their religious belief, cast system, I am sure they will have better life under one common system.

[MEANER53]

UDENNYN: my professor said that India has the richest land to grow food; indian gov. should focus on growing food. I am so happy to get a response from you. I wish, everybody gets involve in solving a world problem. We belong to one race: HUMAN RACE. U SAID that america used resources of others, it agree, India should learn from Americans as of how to use resources of others;enrich India. first, Indians should unite as one nation regardless of ones religion n work together as one unit. page1

[miZsCrZe3]

I feel so sad when the little baby boy said he asks his neighbor for food and wakes up to eat the rest for breakfast..I just wanna grab all of them and hug them so hard..&&feed them.-3

[udennyn]

@MEANER53 And yes what is AMERICA?America is one of the islands just like Australia,Canada,NewZeland which has been occupied by whites from Europe and this way they dispersed their population..