Thursday, November 13, 2014

Blog to feed a child

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.
                    I am going to #BlogToFeedAChild with Akshaya Patra and BlogAdda.


8 comments:

  1. 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.)

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    1. Yes, Akshaya patra is doing a wonderful job and liked the quote from Mahakavi Bharathiyaar. one of my favorite idol. Thank you SG.

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  2. Very 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.

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    1. World Kindness day? Wow!! thanks for the information ma'am. glad to have done a good deed on a special day. Thank you.

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  3. 25 cents can feed a child.
    You have provided thoughtful ideas in your post. But do we pause for a moment and think?Includes myself.
    that is the pity

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  4. I 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!

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    1. Thank 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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