NetIP has recently partnered with The Akshaya Patra Foundation, a leading organization that addresses two of the most immediate challenges facing India, hunger and education, through its school lunch program. Akshaya Patra feeds one million underprivileged children daily in government run schools in India.  It costs only $28 to feed a child for an entire school year and where government subsidy is provided, $28 feeds two children.

Akshaya Patra is the world’s largest NGO-run midday meal program. A public-private partnership, Akshaya Patra combines good management, innovative technology and smart engineering to deliver school lunch at a fraction of the cost of similar programs in other parts of the world. For many of the children this is their only complete meal for the day. This gives them an incentive to come to school, stay in school and provides them with the necessary nutrients they need to develop their cognitive abilities to focus on learning.

To learn more about Akshaya Patra and how you can get involved, please visit www.foodforeducation.org.