About us
Who we are
The Akshaya Patra Foundation focuses on addressing the right to education, malnutrition and poverty with the belief that no child should be deprived of education due to hunger. We provide school meals encouraging children into education, paving the way for a brighter future free from hunger and poverty. We are the world’s largest free school meals provider feeding over 1.6 million children every day!
The Akshaya Patra Foundation’s Food for Education Programme provides a nutritious and filling midday meal to school children across India in 12 states with our now 37 state of the art kitchens. We work at scale with technology, innovate design and our state of the art kitchens that allow us to serve 1.6 million children. We aspire to continue with your support as volunteers to reach our mission is to serve 5 million children by 2020.