| Annamrita - ISKCON Food Relief Foundation Newsletter - Issue 5 - July 2012 |
Annamrita's tasty Khichdi now reaches the Oxford of the east
From 15th June 2012 ISKCON Food Relief Foundation has started feeding 16000 children daily in Pune. Under the midday meal program, Annamrita, we are reaching out to various Municipal schools in areas like Shivaji Nagar, Aundh, Pashan, Bopodi, Pune station and Koregaon Park. We have begun serving 120 city schools with mid-day meals from our high-tech kitchen at Nigdi. With six vehicles to distribute the meals we are able to cover schools with two different lunch shifts – morning schools get their meal by 10 AM while afternoon schools get their meal by 3 PM. Our able cooks dish out a wide variety of menus like different types of khichadis, Pulav, Rice with ‘usal’, ‘sambar’ or ‘dal’ etc. One day in the week we also include a supplementary food item like ‘khajur’, ‘chikki’ or wheat biscuits to improve the nutritional quality of the meal. Thus we are able to supply large quantities of quality meals to all the municipal schools in Pune. Continue Reading... |
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Global Impact Day celebrated in world’s second largest slum Nielsen across the globe observed 14th June as Global Impact Day and volunteered for social causes and projects as part of their Corporate Social Responsibility initiative. In Mumbai, around 400 employees from Nielsen along with volunteers from ISKCON Food Relief Foundation, Rotary International and Indian Development Foundation chose to visit Malvani, Asia's second largest slum located in north Mumbai. Continue Reading... |
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Annamrita Expands in Nellore At the request of the Local Government at Nellore, ISKCON Food Relief Foundation has expanded its operating facility in Nellore. Initially we were feeding around 15,000 children in the higher secondary schools of Nellore. We are now reaching out to around 40,000 children in all Primary, Secondary and Higher secondary sections of both rural and urban government schools in Nellore. The local MLC, Sri Vitapa Balasubramanyam and the Deputy Education Officer, Sri Ramalingam visited our expanded facility Continue Reading... |
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Botswana Government seeks inspiration from Annamrita A ten-member group of delegates from the Government of Botswana (Africa) visited St.Mathew's School in Malwani slums to observe our Midday Meal Program there. ISKCON Food Relief Foundation has been feeding the children of Malvani Slums in association with Rotary Club of Mumbai North End for over a year now. The African delegation wanted to study the Food for Education concept of Midday Meal Scheme. Continue Reading... |
 A big Thank you to our volunteers
This month, we would like to take the opportunity to thank our volunteers – people from different walks of life who our volunteering their time and energy to help Annamrita’s mission – ‘hunger free India’. We would specifically like to mention Colonel Ashok Sayanakar. Colonel Ashok has worked with the Indian Army for 35 years. He is currently retired and is residing in Pune. He is helping us out by translating our news articles, information booklets and other material into Marathi. Sir is always very quick to respond to our needs and has excellent command over Marathi – thus giving us high quality written matter in time.
We are very grateful to Colonel Ashok Sayanakar who is taking out time for us from his busy schedule. India needs more such crusaders to help eradicate hunger from society. |
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Dr. RadhaKrishna das meets Shri Narendra Modi Dr. RadhaKrishna Das, Director Annamrita, recently had an opportunity to meet the Hon. Chief Minister of Gujarat, Shri Narendra Modi. He spoke to Shri Modi and appraised him on the work being done by Annamrita in great detail. Shri Modi was very impressed with the impact Annamrita is having on the lives of so many poor children. He was especially pleased to hear that large scale food distribution is being achieved without compromising on hygiene standards. Continue Reading... |
MBA students from International Business School apprentice with Annamrita Six students from the India-Europe International Business School (IEIBS) completed a fifteen day apprentice program with ISKCON Food Relief Foundation. This program was a part of their MBA course work. IEIBS considers social awareness and participation as an important component of grooming responsible managers. To help students understand how the not-for-profit sector functions and to increase awareness about how NGOs contribute to social development were the objectives of this apprenticeship program. Continue Reading... |
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| We express our heartfelt thanks and gratitude to all Donors, Well-wishers and Volunteers in supporting us in giving care and hope to millions of children across the country Annamrita, ISKCON Food Relief Foundation 19, Jaywant Industrial Estate, 63, Tardeo Road, Tardeo, Mumbai-400 034. Tel-022 32546796/23531530 Email- info@annamrita.org Web- www.annamrita.org Follow us on AnnamritaISKCON on Facebook & Twitter View in PDF View in your browser |
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