subject: Want To Be A Part Of Hunger Free World Www.akshayapatra.org [print this page] Hunger Facts Hunger Facts
Every year 15 million children die of hunger,
For the price of one missile, a school full of hungry children could eat lunch every day for 5 years,
One in twelve people worldwide is malnourished, including 160 million children under the age of 5. United Nations Food and Agriculture
Every 3.6 seconds someone dies of hunger
It is estimated that some 800 million people in the world suffer from hunger and malnutrition, about 100 times as many as those who actually die from it each year.
About 183 million children weigh less than they should for their age
The Indian subcontinent has nearly half the world's hungry people. Africa and the rest of Asia together have approximately 40%, and the remaining hungry people are found in Latin America and other parts of the world. Hunger in Global Economy.
How can you help?
A single step of yours can make a huge difference in the childs life. Akshaya Patra the worlds largest school meal run programme. Akshaya Patra is currently feeding 1.2 million underprivileged children across India every school day.
Akshaya Patra is in 8 states and 18 locations; recently Akshaya Patra started its operation in Assam to reach more children who can also benefit the nutritious meal provided by Akshaya Patra regularly to government school children.
What is Akshaya Patra?
Akshayapatra is the worlds largest nonprofit organization, which provides food for underprivileged children. Due to school meal programme which is initiated by The Akshaya Patra foundation, school dropout has been decreased substantially, children started realizing that they are been provided nutritious and tasty meal free of cost in the school, due to this they attend the classes regularly.
The children of government school are not capable of having full meals every day as their parents cannot afford 3 times a meal to their entire family. The school meal programme run by the Akshaya Patra Foundation aims at food for education which is free & helping poor family to send their children to school to at least have a one time full nutritious meal every school day.
Akshayapatra started in the year 2000 with a pilot project of feeding 1500 children.
Akshayapatra in the year 2009 reached a milestone of feeding 1 million underprivileged children which it had projected to feed by 2010. Now Akshaya Patra envisions to feed 5 million underprivileged children by 2020.
Akshayapatra serves nutritious and hygienic meals to the beneficiaries; Akshayapatra is supported by public private partnerships and individuals.
Know about Akshaya Patra Activities:
Akshaya Patra Home Page: http://www.akshayapatra.org/
