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LAUNCH OF ‘AIKYA—UNITED WE SERVE’
With the objective to harness youth power for social initiatives, we have launched AIKYA—a volunteering initiative in Bengaluru,
NCR, Vrindavan, and Guwahati.
3 key pillars of this initiative are:
> Environment
> School Education
> Cleanliness
We aspire to scale this initiative to other states of the country. Our aim is to scale it to 100,000 volunteers in 3 years. This
initiative is undertaken keeping in mind, our focus on children and schools.
Your Foundation will be reaching the milestone of feeding a cumulative 3 billion meals by March 2019. The journey to reach the
1 billion mark was 12 years long, and in another 4 years and 6 months, we reached the cumulative 2 billion meals.
While scaling up, our focus on quality initiatives has remained resolute and we have strengthened the same from time to time.
The focus areas for the next 2-3 years would be on the following:
> Enhance the capacity utilisation of kitchens by undertaking other programmes
> Reach out to more children in new locations in a sustainable manner
> Strengthening of processes and systems
> Take-up other feeding programmes
We aspire
to nurture
the potential
of every child
To achieve our goals, we are drawing a roadmap for IT Infrastructure. Some of the key initiatives are:
> Develop a common platform for all types of fundraising with a structured common donor
> Develop a Business Intelligence (BI) tool which will provide all the dashboards, patterns of data and this will aid in
decision-making.
The support received from various stakeholders has enabled Akshaya Patra to reach 1.75 million beneficiaries during the
year 2017-18.
We look forward to receiving this unflinching support in the coming year as well.
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