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Akshaya Patra

Akshaya Patra is the free midday meal scheme in Karnataka.

This is the daily midday meal scheme for underprivileged kids.

The kitchen from the outside -
a three-storey building which uses Gravity Flow Mechanism developed in-house
by our team. Each kitchen has the capacity to cook between 50 000 to 100 000
mid-day meals per day. Costing approximately 9 crores to set up, they are built with funds from public donations.

The kitchen from the inside,
consisting of rice cauldrons each of which
cooks up to 110kg of rice in 20 minutes.
Sambar cauldrons cook up to 1200
litres of sambar in two hours.

It is washed thoroughly on the 2nd floor

Washed rice is sent down the chute to the
1st floor

                                  

Rice pours down into steam heated cauldrons
for cooking. The entire cooking process
takes place on the 1st floor

                                  

Super heated steam is used
to cook food instead of flame.

                                  

When cooking is finished, it is
loaded into trolleys

                                 

Cooked rice is sent down the chute
to the ground floor

                                  

It flows down the pipe into containers

                                  

Piping hot rice on its way to being
loaded into food vans. Around
6000 kilosof rice are cooked daily
in each kitchen.

                                  

Food materials in Kitchen

                                  

Stock in the kitchen

                                  

Washed dal and vegetables flows
down the chute into sambar cauldron on
the 1st floor.

                                  

Vegetables and dal ready to be cooked

                                  

Sambar being cooked on the first floor

                                  

Cooked sambar is packed and sent to the
food vans to be loaded.

                                  

Chapati dough is mixed

                                  

Heavy rollers flatten the dough into
thin sheets

                                  

Dough is cut into the classic round shape

                                  

Making chapatti

                                  

Collecting all the chapattis

                                  

Transporting akshayapatra food through bus

                                  

Happy Kids

                                  

Students benifited from akshayapatra

Birth of The Akshaya Patra Foundation 

The history of our Foundation starts with a story of compassion.

Looking out of a window one day in Mayapur, a village near Calcutta , His Divine Grace A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

saw a group of children fighting with street dogs over scraps of food. From this simple, yet heart breaking incident,

came the determination that:  No one within a ten mile radius of our center should go hungry.

It is his inspiration which helped us to create23 The Akshaya Patra Foundation as it is today. 

They began this initiative with the vision that “No child in India shall be deprived of education because of hunger.”

In June 2000, they started our mid-day meal program in Bangalore by feeding 1500 children in 5 schools.

At that time there was no State run school meal program in Karnataka.

Within a few short weeks they had received hundreds of requests from teachers who expressed the dire need of such a scheme.

This over whelming response was the impetus for the growth of The Akshaya Patra Foundation.

Growth of The Akshaya Patra Foundation

In November 28, 2001 the Supreme Court of India passed an order which mandated that: "Cooked mid-day meal is to be provided

in all the government and government-aided primary schools in all the states."

Akshaya Patra was called in, to give testimonies to the Supreme Court in order to implement the mandate.

By the time the Ministry of Human Resource Development (Department of School Health and Education)

extended its support to this noble cause in 2003, Akshaya Patra was already reaching out to 49,432 underprivileged children

through the support of our donors. With the partnership of the Government of India & various State governments, as well as the

generosity of thousands of their supporters, they have grown from a small endeavor to a mammoth force that stretches across the country.

Now they are reaching out to over 1.2 million children everyday.

For 10 years, they have been an international charity for children that has worked to transform a vision into a reality.

Good Bad Ugly

Butterflies, Brazil

Butterflies spatter the shoreline of the Juruena River in Brazil’s new 4.7-million-acre (2-million-hectare) Juruena National Park. Several different species flock to the riverbanks to sip mineral salts from the sand.

Victoria Falls, Zambia

The 355-foot (108-meter) drop of Victoria Falls just inches away, a swimmer stands at the lip of a hidden pool—an eight-foot-deep (two-meter-deep) divot in the riverbed rock—accessible only when the Zambezi River runs low.

Whale Shark and Snorkelers, Maldives

A school of snorkelers struggles to keep pace with a whale shark—the world’s biggest fish, which can grow more than 60 feet (18 meters) long. These rare sharks glide along swiftly, exhausting even fit swimmers within minutes.

Carrot Seeds, Czech Republic

It takes a microscope to make a handful of carrot seeds look like a swarm of bristling space invaders. There are about 450,000 of these Daucus carota seeds in a single pound.

Sanaga-Yong Chimp Death

At the Sanaga-Yong Chimpanzee Rescue Center, more than a dozen residents form a gallery of grief, looking on as Dorothy—a beloved female felled in her late 40s by heart failure—is borne to her burial.

Colt Fetus, England

Like a porcelain figurine carved into repose, the fetus of a foal floats in a jar. The 85-day-old, 5.5-inch-long (14-centimeter-long) colt was removed postmortem and preserved in formaldehyde after its mother, a thoroughbred, died

Mosquito and Water Drops, Finland

On a window in Kotka, a slightly battered mosquito sits silhouetted against a mosaic of water drops, each reflecting spring sky and the crayon colors of nearby buildings

Sperm Whales, Atlantic Ocean

Near the Azores, just below the sunlit Atlantic surface, sperm whales float in vertical repose. Scientists think "drift dives" are a form of communal slumber. This species may sleep the least of any mammal.

Glass Frog, Germany

The see-through skin of an inch-long (2.5-centimeter-long) glass frog reveals her eggs. Native to Venezuela, the frogs lay eggs in bushes and trees overhanging streams. Tadpoles hatch, then tumble into the current to be swept away.

Icebreaker, Arctic Ocean

The 22-ton stainless steel propellers on the icebreaker Louis S. St-Laurent pause in their work pushing the Canadian vessel through frozen waters—allowing a diver to venture near.

Lions, Kenya

Hungry lions in a Masai Mara pride leave little of a wildebeest. "The animals were so involved [with] eating that I was able to drive very close and take a picture standing on my car's roof," says photographer Michel Denis-Huot.

Big Rigs, Japan

Covered in chrome and gleaming neon, big rigs from across Japan shine at a truck show in Aichi Prefecture. Known as dekotora, most are working trucks—though on long hauls, they're typically not driven with all their lights on

Mount Fitz Roy, Argentina

Moonlight sets mist aglow on the Patagonian peak of Mount Fitz Roy, known to local people as Cerro Chaltén, or "smoking mountain," because its summit is often capped in clouds.

Wind Turbines, California

More than 3,000 wind turbines bristle across the hills of the Tehachapi-Mojave Wind Resource Area, generating enough electricity to serve a quarter million homes each year.

Great Gray Owl, Sweden

The facial disk of feathers circling this great gray owl's eyes channel forest-floor sounds back to its ears, helping the bird pounce on a vole and carry it away.

Read .... Realy a great Thought

It was a Sports Stadium.

Eight Children were standing on the track to participate in a running event.

* Ready! * Steady! * Bang !!!
With the sound of Toy pistol, All eight girls started running.

Hardly had they covered ten to fifteen steps, when one of the smaller girls slipped and fell down, Due to bruises and pain she started crying.

When the other seven girls heard the little girl cry they stopped running, stood for a while and turned back.

Seeing the girl on the track they all ran to help.

One among them bent down, picked her up and kissed her gently And inquired as to how she was.. They then lifted the fallen girl pacifying her.

Two of them held her firmly while all seven joined hands together and walked together towards the winning post........ .. There was pin drop silence at the spectator's stand. Officials were shocked.

Slow claps multiplied to thousands as the spectators stood up in appreciation. Many eyes were filled with tears !

YES.!! This happened in Hyderabad [INDIA], recently!

The sport was conducted by National Institute For Mental Health

All these special girls had come to participate in this event, They were spastic children. Yes, they were Mentally Challenged.

What did they teach the WORLD.?
Teamwork.?
Humanity.?
Equality among all.??
Successful people help others who are slow in learning
So that they are not left far behind.

This is really a great message... Spread it.!

We never do this maybe because we think we have brains !!!! ???