Madhu Pandit Dasa
FounderFounder of The Akshaya Patra Foundation
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Madhu Pandit Dasa is the founder of The Akshaya Patra Foundation (2000)[1], an Indian non-profit working on hunger, education and women & children from Bengaluru.
The Akshaya Patra Foundation
Akshaya Patra runs one of the world's largest NGO-operated school lunch programmes, serving mid-day meals to government and government-aided school children across India. It works as an implementing partner of the Government of India's PM POSHAN scheme through a network of centralised and decentralised kitchens.
The Akshaya Patra Foundation reports the following, on its own site:
- Serves mid-day meals to over 2.35 million children every school day
- 5 billion cumulative meals served since 2000
- 78 kitchen locations across 16 states and 3 union territories
- Reaches children in 25,768 schools and Anganwadis
- Organisations
- 1
- Based in
- Bengaluru
- Founded
- 2000
- Press
- 5
References
- [1] “Madhu Pandit Dasa started Akshaya Patra in the year 2000.” — The Akshaya Patra Foundation. Source
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