The right to nourished food and education is a vital right for all children. Healthy
educated children build an economic, social and culturally developed society.
Our government and many NGO’s actively
participate in providing the vital rights and in improving the quality of health and education of the poor
children in India. Some NGO’s like Akshaya patra foundation headquartered in Bangalore, India strive to
fight issues like hunger and malnutrition by implementing the mid-day meal
scheme in the government schools and
aided schools. They also aim to bring children to school and educate them. The
NGO is constantly leveraging technology to cater to millions of children
through its state-of-the art kitchens. Many
philanthropic donors and well-wishers, business houses contribute to such NGO’s
to build a healthy and educated society.
We still need to bump our resources for this
mammoth task. Apart from donations used for meals, inititatives can be taken to eliminate the classroom hunger by growing
food. NGO’s can co-ordinate with schools to grow their own food. Each and every school can utilize the space in
the ground or use container gardening in terraces and little sunny spaces to grow organic food. The kitchen trash
generated in community kitchens of
mid-day meals can be utilized for composting . The organic food can be grown by
the children themselves as part of outdoor learning. The produce reaped from
outdoor learning can be utilized for the mid-day meals thus saving substantial
amount on raw materials.
By doing this, not only are we meeting the
food demands and food security ,we are also educating the children on
environmental sustainability,reducing the carbon foot prints and saving our precious resources . It is usually
a small group of people who bring about a change and
with little hands growing their own food
and getting educated, there is
hope….of a better tomorrow.
This post in response to Bloggers Social Responsibility.
Thanks for the nice post. They are doing an excellent job in fighting hunger and malnutrition. I am reminded of a line from Poet Laureate Mahakavi Bharathiyaar. “Thani Oru Manithanukku Unavu Illai Enil Intha Jagathinai Azhithiduvom”. (If there is no food even for a single individual, we will destroy this world.)
ReplyDeleteYes, Akshaya patra is doing a wonderful job and liked the quote from Mahakavi Bharathiyaar. one of my favorite idol. Thank you SG.
DeleteVery inspiring post. on a very auspicious day! Today is world kindness day. There could not have been a better day to give the message of love, and kindness on this day. Beautifully written.
ReplyDeleteWorld Kindness day? Wow!! thanks for the information ma'am. glad to have done a good deed on a special day. Thank you.
Delete25 cents can feed a child.
ReplyDeleteYou have provided thoughtful ideas in your post. But do we pause for a moment and think?Includes myself.
that is the pity
Thank you Anilkumar.
DeleteI liked your idea of growing food in schools. I know, you are speaking from the success of your own terrace organic farming! Kudos to you, Asha for writing for a noble cause. Will write my post tonight for this initiative!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Shilpa and kudos to you too for writing a post on this initiative:) Glad we are able to support such causes.
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