Akshaya Patra welcomes the The Child Tracking System (CTS) which is now being used by several government departments and is helping them take various health and education schemes to the children they are meant for more effectively.

For instance, the CTS is allowing the Department of Public Instruction keep a watch on dropouts and improve their social-economic conditions under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan scheme. The relevant information is fed into the system for online tracking and the complete database of dropouts brought back to school, is updated in every taluk with each student’s photograph, name and family history.

As many as 1,244 of the 1,763 dropouts identified in early 2012-13 have been brought back to school this way. The CTS is helping identify potential dropouts and counsel them on the importance of education.

Akshaya Patra through its midday meal programme is also helping in reducing the dropout rates.

Many parents find it difficult to arrange a square meal for their children. Their resource are too meagre to take care of the need of the entire family. If mother is working she has to leave the house early for having no time to prepare food.  Such circumstances   force them to take their children out of school to either work outside or do household chores.  In such cases Akshaya Patra’s mid day meal acts as a big support for them taking off the burden of arranging meal for the child and allowing their children to study with filled stomachs

Akshaya Patra through its mid day- meal programme is feeding 1.3 million children across 19 locations of 9 Indian states covering more than 9000 schools every day.  The hot nutritious meal served acts as an incentive for the parents to make their children stay in school or let them join school. A.C Nielson study shows that mid day meal has reduced dropout rate and increased attendance, enrolment t with better performance of the students.

Source: http://www.deccanchronicle.com/130227/news-current-affairs/article/track-child-check-dropouts

Be an Online Supporter

Sometimes even though we feel for a cause and want to be a part of the solution, our day to day work holds us back. At the end of the day we convince ourselves saying ‘I would have done my bit if I had time’.

We believe that if we have the passion for the cause and the spark within, we can make a child smile without disturbing our daily operations. Sign in as a Cyber Advocate for The Akshaya Patra Foundation and all you have to do is:-

• Forward the mailers to your friends and help us spread the word across.
• Promote Akshaya Patra in your social networking profile and ask your friends to follow us.
• Introduce Akshaya Patra to all your online communities/ fan clubs etc.
• Download and use our screensavers, buttons, posters, wallpapers, banners etc.

Blog Writing Opportunity for Volunteers
If you are a blogger, write about Akshaya Patra in your blog and let people know that you support the cause. You can also write what you feel about Akshaya Patra and the cause we work for and send it to us. We will publish it in our blog.

Online Fundraising Volunteer Opportunities 
Akshaya Patra feeds 1.3 million children every day across 9 states and 19 locations. We also plan to expand our operations to more and more locations. People across the globe are helping us raise this fund in their own small ways.

Register yourself as an online fund raising volunteer. Fund raised will go to providing mid-day meal to the school children. The fundraiser contributing the highest amount will get published in our collaterals.

Social Media Volunteer Opportunities

 You can become a social media volunteer for Akshaya Patra depending on which Social Media site you are more active.

All of us spend some time on Social Networking sites. Why not for a noble cause? You can-

• Become our fan on facebook and regularly like our post and share with your friends.
• Tweet and re-tweet about us on Twitter
• Share our You Tube video
• Add us in your circle in Google Plus

You can be active in all or in any of these activities. Your effort will be acknowledged by us on our Face book page.

We welcome suggestions from your side     

Besides the above given options if you feel you can support Akshaya Patra in some other way being in line with the objective of the organisation, we would like to hear from you.

For all your queries

Write to: infodesk@akshayapatra.org

Tel:       080 32471066

Mob:    +91 8494918845

Offline Volunteer Opportunities