The Akshaya Patra Foundation

The Akshaya Patra Foundation
Partner with Akshaya Patra this World Hunger Day
As we approach World Hunger Day 2015 we take stock of the hunger problem both
across the world and in India too. The past twenty years have shown great developments
in tackling the global issue of hunger. With a Global Hunger Index score of 20.6 in 1990,
reduced to 12.5 in 2014, addressing hunger has clearly been given priority in the world.
However, despite the attention granted to this issue, there are still around 805 million
people globally who suffer with chronic hunger and malnourishment even today. It is to
bring awareness of this issue, and to invite people around the world to come together with
the affected men, women and children to find a sustainable solution to hunger and
poverty, that this day was conceptualised.
World Hunger Day is an annual event that has been created by The Hunger Project UK,
and is celebrated on 28 th May each year. The theme this year is ‘Do something great’. The
theme invites people all across the world to get involved in programmes, come up with
activities, and get involved in any way they can, and do something great to help reduce
hunger and poverty in the world today. The day is a celebration also of the need to work
with communities suffering from chronic hunger, and develop a sustainable strategy to
help them overcome the problem for good.
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The Akshaya Patra Foundation
India has made great strides in reducing hunger as well. According to a provisional report
submitted by the Ministry of Women and Child Development and UNICEF, the score of
underweight children in India dropped from 43.5 per cent in 2005-06 to 30.7 per cent in
2013-14. This improvement has been brought about by certain highly effective initiatives
introduced by the Government of India to help combat hunger and malnutrition in the
country. Some of these have been ensuring better agricultural output, diversifying
produce, aiding small and marginal farmers and increasing efficiency, cost effectiveness
and nutritional value of services like the Integrated Child Development Service, Mid-Day
Meal Scheme, and Targeted Public Distribution System.
However despite these measures hunger remains a big problem in India, increased by
issues like the wide economic gap between the rich and poor, and huge quantities of food
wasted every year. Akshaya Patra through its mid-day meal programme that provides
nutritious food from its 24 kitchen units, to over 1.4 million children across 10 states of
India has made some progress in reducing the impact of hunger especially among children
in India. Join with us this World Hunger Day 2015 to ‘Do something great’ and end
classroom hunger in India! Donate now!
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