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

“What’s in a meal?” or “What can a meal do?” The immediate answer is- it can fill a hungry stomach. Have we ever thought what else a meal can do? Often we have not. But, The Akshaya Patra Foundation gave an earnest thought to it. It realized that the goodness and potential of one meal goes far beyond just filling a hungry stomach; it reaches out till the generations that are yet to come.

It’s a fact that a hungry stomach cannot think of anything else but food. So, unless this basic need is met, it is evident that an individual cannot think of future goals. For the mind to think beyond food, the stomach has to be full. The same rule applies when it comes to learning or education. If we need a child to get educated, we need to first feed the child. For this reason, if a child is provided school lunch, it will simultaneously aid in furthering the cause.  This is where Akshaya Patra comes to fore. It works towards providing unlimited food for education.

Akshaya Patra provides school lunch to Government school students on every school working days through its mid-day meal programme. The inception of the Foundation dates back to June 2000. 12 years of its successful journey can be seen in its achievements and future plans. The crystal clear focus on its aim of reaching more and more children is evident in its current reach of 1.3 million children across India.

Here is an anecdote of a little boy that tells the power of one wholesome meal:

Sunny Kheralia, a 13 year old from Rajasthan is a grade 7 student. His is a large family comprising of 3 brothers and 1 sister. His father works as a sweeper in a local hospital earning a very low salary of around Rs. 3000 per month.  Sunny is a brilliant student and has been scoring very high grades in his academics. He takes up his studies sincerely and enjoys the meal at school. An Akshaya Patra meal beneficiary he says, “I enjoy eating the noon meal provided by the Akshaya Patra Foundation.”

Sunny has grown up seeing his father sweeping the hospital corridor everyday. But with the education he has been receiving he hopes to bring in a welcome change in the family and especially in his father’s life. Sunny aspires to be a doctor and work in the same hospital where his father is working currently. This instance evidently brings forth the benefit of education, and potential of one wholesome meal, in transforming a society for better.