The Akshaya Patra Foundation has its operations over 18 locations across India, each one filled with its own triumphs and trials.

Lakshmikant Dasa, the location head of Hyderabad, explains the challenges faced by Akshaya Patra in that city. Located in an industrial area, the kitchen there has always had many hurdles to overcome, one of them being the problem of retaining workers.

We have therefore come up with many incentives in order to encourage them to stay. A bonus is given at the end of every month for all the employees who did not take leave during that period of 30 days. Every Saturday, movies are played for in-house workers and care is taken to ensure that good quality and varieties of food are provided to them.

Apart from all of the above, we see to it that they are not overburdened in the course of their work and are given all the support they need to help them do their jobs in an efficient and professional manner.

Baran– a remote corner of Rajasthan- where the people are denied of even the basic amenities of life, Akshaya Patra reaches out to 20,200 underprivileged children with the nutritious unlimited food through their decentralized kitchen. You must be wondering what this decentralized kitchen is.

Decentralized kitchens are those kitchens of Akshaya Patra where the operations are carried out manually involving the local population of the vicinity. Thus the Akshaya Patra not only feeds the children there but also provides employment opportunities to the women folk of that region.

They form a self help group of women who cooks the meal for their own children who goes to the school and in turn earn financial self sufficiency.

 What can be more tasty and nutritious than the food cooked by our mothers?