Assam is calling for your help!

55 lakh people of Assam are suffering, having lost their money, homes, security and loved ones in floods and landslides. Over 2 lakh people are struggling in relief camps and the numbers are increasing every 12 hours.

Northeast gets flooded every year. Yet people are considering the floods in Assam this time as “the worst flood in decades” that has hit 28 districts in total. (Source: Quint)

Shops have drowned, schools have been destroyed, and people are coming face-to-face with crocodiles. Main roads have turned into rivers, and children are getting washed away only to be found dead hours later.

The situation is grim and more people are dying each day. The overflowing rivers are killing hundreds and the Central Water Commission has declared the flood status as “severe”.

With all the loss, your donation to NGOs in India and for Akshaya Patra food relief works can help many flood victims survive the catastrophe and the resulting water-borne diseases.
We need your support AGAIN!

Support Akshaya Patra’s Assam Food Relief Programme

We, at Akshaya Patra — an NGO in India, are providing food to flood-affected people in Assam from our kitchen in Guwahati. The cooked meals could be any one of the options below (depending on the availability of raw materials):

• rice, dal and sabzi
• vegetable pulao and sabzi
• plain or vegetable khichdi

We will continue the Akshaya Patra flood relief works until the situation improves. Your kindness until now helped us feed underprivileged school children, pregnant women and nursing mothers for over two decades. And donations from generous people like you repeatedly enabled us to provide disaster relief during floods in Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Chennai, Kerala and Uttarakhand.

Support us while we ensure families in Assam don’t worry about food.

We have served 85,000 meals till now. We need your contribution to reach several lakhs of additional children and their flood-hit families.

Let’s come together to help our friends from Northeast India while nature regains her balance. Donate online to feed the needy residents of Assam.

At The Akshaya Patra Foundation, we envision an India where ‘No child shall be deprived of education because of hunger’. With a belief that feeding the hungry is a social responsibility, we ensure that no matter what, children get access to hot and nutritious food every day. We work on a Private Public Partnership (PPP) model with the Government of India and our corporate donors to have a cascading effect on the nation’s progress towards Zero Hunger.

Akshaya Patra’s kitchens are dubbed as the world’s largest kitchens preparing midday meals for more than 1.8 million children across the country. With its 59 centralised and 2 decentralised kitchens, the Foundation’s service towards the mid-day meal programme is well-known.

These kitchens use gravity’s potential energy for the cooking process, a method known as the ‘gravity-flow mechanism’. They are the country’s most advanced centralised kitchens, with over lakhs of meals cooked in less than 5 hours every day for children in government and government-aided schools. Akshaya Patra kitchens are noted for their efficiency and effectiveness, thanks to the use of innovative technology. Every morning, operations begin at 4 am, and hot meals are ready to be served by 8am. The centralised cooking facilities are planned and developed to ensure the highest level of quality while reducing cost, time, and labour.

Every school day, a specialised fleet of cutting-edge food delivery vans navigate kilometres to ensure that students get their much-needed lunch on time. The Akshaya Patra Foundation has customised its delivery vehicles with insulated bodies and honeycomb constructed racks to carry containers. This ensures that hot and fresh food reaches schools, with no spillage during transportation, every day. The specially built vehicle is dust-free, insulated to preserve the ideal temperature of 65℃ approximately, and aids in the preservation of the meals’ freshness.

All the kitchen employees of Akshaya Patra put in all of their hard work to ensure that children receive hot and nutritious food during their lunchtime. The kitchens start whirring early in the morning as there is a humungous task of feeding 1.8 million children every day.