Akshaya Patra

Every child deserves a happy and caring childhood. But, unfortunately not all children receive such an environment. Many children are deprived of education, they are pushed into the world of labour...

Corporate Social Responsibility or CSR refers to the initiatives taken by Corporates for a social cause through positive public relations. The social responsibility of corporates includes philanthropy...

See a bunch of kids playing football, shouting, grappling on the playground in the beautiful campus of Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya Primary School in Vadodara; it’s easy to spot Dashrath, a student of...

"Throwing away food is like stealing from the table of those who are poor and hungry," – Pope Francis on food wastage Back in 1996, a report released by the United Nations' Food and Agriculture...

Indeed, supporting a social cause is a selfless act and purely an individual choice. Most often, it is an inner voice urging us to do something good. We tend to extend our support to that particular...

Some thoughts and practices are timeless, like childhood must be nourished and nurtured in all possible ways to provide an amicable environment to children for their holistic development. This is...

Akshaya Patra is a mid-day meal NGO that serves nutritious lunch to school children in Government schools and Government-aided schools. It has a rich history of serving children for the past 18 years...

India needs more non-profit organisations that selflessly help children who are deprived of education. Akshaya Patra is one such NGO working for the same cause by providing mid-day meals in many...

If you were asked to deliver a speech or write an article on the importance of education, could you do that? Yes, bet you could. Who cannot do something as simple as that? Except those, who never get...

NGOs or Non-Governmental Organisations are cause-oriented organisations that work for a plethora of issues ranging from social development, human development, health, skill development, environment to...

Food is a basic and vital requirement for the survival of any living being. In Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, food is one of the factors categorised under physiological needs, the deprivation of...

Donating towards charity and needy people is a very noble act. Most of us at some point in our lives, would have considered to do our bit of the society by giving to a charity, an old age home or any...

Paying income tax is a mandatory duty for all citizens. This tax helps the government to maintain defence forces, build infrastructure like healthcare, schools etc. and take care of overall...

The Akshaya Patra Foundation is an NGO in Bangalore that provides wholesome school lunch to children. This NGO lets you do online fundraising for serving children and makes sure that all the money is...

A meal that supports education in a wholesome way! Way back in 2001 on the twentieth day of November, the Supreme Court of India passed a mandate stating, "We direct the State Governments/Union...