How 2 Million Children Are Fed Daily By The World’s Biggest Free School Meal Provider | Big Batches

The Akshaya Patra Foundation has provided 3 billion free school meals and is one of India’s largest nongovernmental organizations. It prepares freshly cooked food and nutritious meals for 2 million children every day in 65 kitchens across 14 states and two union territories in India. We visited one of its mega kitchens in Bangalore to see how cooks produce 75,000 meals in under four hours.

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How 1.8 Million Children Are Fed Daily By The World’s Biggest Free School Meal Provider In India

[msriram]

No frozen, no canned, no processed food. All fresh ingredients, made daily. Kids everywhere deserve this in their school lunches.

[KushChakraborty]

As an Indian makes me proud to have such an organization serving our kids. Respect!

[commentnahipadhaikar]

Fun fact

Akshaya Patra literally means vessel which never gets reduced or defected.
According to legends, Akshaya Patra was such a vessel which never gets empty of food, no matter how much food is taken from it. A limitless supply of food.

[shashanksaxena]

When you think about the scale on which they work....the sheer number of students they feed....the demography they serve.... the area they the logistics they manage on a daily basis.... It's just mind blowing!

[lmb]

I absolutely love this story. Why is it, my country, the USA, can't have a program like this for our most important asset, our children! The compassion, care and attention to detail combined with the gratitude the kids were showing. It warms my heart that someone in the self-centered world of today stopped & listened to what was needed for the children and then actually did something about it. Kudos to all of you!

[Triple]

I’ve been a worker in dozens of restaurants in America. Your food is prepared and looks better than 90% of what I’ve seen behind the closed doors in American restaurants. Well done! I’m hungry now.

[andrewclarke]

I actually had the privilege of touring this very kitchen in 2010. It was absolutely astounding

[anniefannycharles]

This brings tears. They truly care about their country's children. Compassion.

[omerjameel]

Believe me, I have studied in the government school in bangaluru the food they offer which is from Akshaya Patra is delicious and amazing in taste and we used wait for the van every day 1 hour prior to the lunch and after we had our own plates which took in hands and waited in que...I can say the food is amazing every day they offer something different and in the weekend that is Saturday they deliver special food like bisibele baath and payasam (sweet) and still love the food❤️🤩👍

[slight]

Looks healthier than most American school cafeterias. Congrats to this kitchen.

[atulkotian]

What hasn't been mentioned in this video is that this is run by the ISKCON. Indian temples have had this tradition of providing meals after prayer services. The idea came into existence to extend this concept beyond the temple premises to schools. I hope others take notice to this and implement similar programs to feed children. Not only has this program helped fight malnutrition, but also school drop-out rates.

[alokbalsekar]

This Foundation is run by a Hindu Religious Trust.

No proselytization expected in return for the meals. No Pamphlets, No Coercion. No Peer Pressure. No strings attached.

Pure Service to humanity.

[nikethanavattikunta]

Children in schools, especially public schools in India, being able to eat a hearty meal makes a prominent impact on their lives and their families since most parents can't afford to feed them each such full and healthy meals! Though this should be something provided by the Government through public funds and it's failing in many areas, Akshaya Patra is for sure making a big help to the country!

[xsystem]

those children got large portions of food everyday..it is indeed one of the greatest organization in the world..love 🇮🇳 from 🇵🇭

[alwayslearning]

It's not expensive to cook and provide cheap wholesome food for school kids and the rich economic countries are failing at it.
Bravo India!!

[Ruthless]

Never in my life have I been more appreciative of the people that served me food when I was in school. Never knew how they did it, but I assumed something like this

[BigBenKen]

This is one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. 2 Million childs served food for free A DAY.. that's the videos that deserve to get viral

[hotforhoya]

I don't know why the algorithm recommended this video to me, but oh my goodness it was so heartwarming to see the sincere passion for caring for these kids in the organization and seeing the kids genuinely enjoy the food they are being served, enough for most to relate it to their own grandmother's cooking. That was amazing and such a stark contrast to the attitude most children and parents have towards public school food here in the US. It warms my heart to know this exists ❤️

[kompshi]

love this program and i am proud to say that i have been donating for the last 15 years ever month from my children are the future of India

[MajorPickleSwag]

Bruh this is 100x better than paid american public school lunches