Akshaya Patra Foundation USA

Akshaya Patra means the unlimited bowl of abundance and sustenance. The organization began its operations in the year 2000 by serving 1,500 meals to a small group of local schools. With the vision to eliminate classroom hunger, Akshaya Patra has since scaled to serve over 2 million meals to children in over 20,000 government schools across 14 states and 2 Union Territories in India daily. In addition to our core mid-day meal program, we also provide breakfast and meals to pregnant and lactating mothers and children between 0-5 years.

Akshaya Patra combines good management, innovative technology, and smart engineering to deliver school lunch for a fraction of the cost of similar meal programs in other parts of the world - it costs $20 to feed a child daily for the entire school year, after getting government subsidy of up to 60% of the cost.

During the Covid-19 pandemic, the organization served over 244 million meals to individuals and families in need.