These hope stories are brought to you by The Akshaya Patra Foundation. Each of these individuals have touched our lives. They have brought warmth and purpose to us as people and as an organisation. They have also exemplified the tremendous impact the Mid-Day Meal Programme can make on underprivileged lives.

These hope stories feature our beneficiaries, school teachers, parents, and many others who have influenced and been influenced by our programme. Hence, this page is dedicated to all the people who want to make a difference in the world.

The Akshaya Patra Foundation implements the world’s largest NGO-run Mid-Day Meal Programme (now called the PM POSHAN Abhiyaan). Established in the year 2000, we currently feed over 2 million children across 22,367 schools in 14 states and 2 union territories of India every day.