Goal 2: Zero Hunger
End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture.
425 organisations on Daan.org work in areas corresponding to this goal — Hunger, Rural & Agriculture. This is our mapping of causes to goals, not an assessment against the UN's indicators.
The Akshaya Patra Foundation
Unlimited food for education
Serves mid-day meals to over 2.35 million children every school day
Feeding India by Zomato
Working towards a hunger-free India
1.4 lakh+ children served daily
Paani Foundation
Aamir Khan's foundation fighting drought in rural Maharashtra
5 million people impacted through water conservation and sustainable farming
Founded by Aamir Khan
Gautam Gambhir Foundation
Cricketer Gautam Gambhir's foundation for health and education
Community kitchens, education and healthcare initiatives to empower underprivileged children
Founded by Gautam Gambhir
Annamrita Foundation
ISKCON-linked mid-day meal programme for schoolchildren
12 lakh+ mid-day meals served daily
Robin Hood Army
Volunteer network redistributing surplus food to the hungry
158 million meals served to the less fortunate
Rise Against Hunger India
Fighting hunger through meal packaging and nutrition programmes
4.6 crore (46 million) meals packaged
No Food Waste
Recovering surplus food and redistributing it to the needy
15 million+ plates of surplus food served to the needy
Watershed Organisation Trust
Watershed development and climate resilience for rural India
6.93 million people reached across 7,124 villages
Friends of Tribals Society (Ekal)
One teacher, one village — education at tribal doorsteps
45,635 one-teacher schools (Ekal Vidyalayas) run in tribal villages
Gram Vikas
Rural communities leading their own water, sanitation and habitat work
600,000 people reached in 1,700 villages
Seva Mandir
Village-level development and governance in southern Rajasthan
1,500 villages worked in
Rural Development Trust (Vicente Ferrer Foundation India)
Integrated rural development in Anantapur
8,00,000+ people availed treatment at the RDT Hospital Network
Naandi Foundation
Girls' education and regenerative farming livelihoods
30,00,000 tribal lives brought out of poverty
Mitraniketan
Rural education, technology and farm science in Kerala
An average of 200 children educated every year through its free residential school
VAAGDHARA
Tribal self-reliance through child rights, farming and governance
1,30,000 tribal families reached
Nand Ghar
Modernising Anganwadis for women and children
15,000 Nand Ghars across 76 districts in 18 states
Kamalnayan Jamnalal Bajaj Foundation
Self-reliant villages through water and farming
1,27,000 farming families benefitted
LCIF India
Lions Clubs' grantmaking foundation in India
More than US$139 million has been awarded to Lions in India through more than 2,874 grants since 1973
Reliance Foundation
Rural transformation, health, education and sports
More than 100 million (10 crore) people across India touched
Ambuja Foundation
Rural prosperity through water, farms and skills
6.73 million people reached
Hindustan Unilever Foundation
Water conservation at national scale
Water conservation programmes have reached more than 19,000 villages across 14 states and 2 union territories
REC Foundation
CSR arm of REC Limited (Ministry of Power)
Sanctioned over 300 CSR projects and disbursed more than ₹1,100 crore under these projects
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (India)
Grantmaker for health, sanitation and financial inclusion
Works with 30 million smallholder farmers across India, especially women, on climate-smart agricultural innova