Striving to end hunger of underprivileged children in the 6 to 16 years age group and facilitate their education, The Akshaya Patra Foundation, a not-for-profit, Bangalore-based secular trust evolved a lunch program in schools in the year 2000. Akshaya Patra is the world s largest NGO-run school meal program in the world. What started as a pilot project in five schools in Bangalore, feeding 1,500 children, has now grown into a mammoth endeavor reaching out to about 11,86,206 children in about 6,137 government, government aided schools and anganwadis (day care centers) in seventeen locations, in seven states in India, day-after-day.....!
As a part of its expansion plans, the Akshaya Patra Foundation extended its school meal programme to Hyderabad on October 13 th 2008, from a temporary location in Patancheru. This academic year the Akshaya Patra supports to a total of 127 schools supporting 30,468 school children.
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