My name is Sahil Khanna and I am a grade 12 student at The Shri Ram School, Moulsari, Gurugram. It gives me a strong feeling of purpose to help people who are less fortunate than me and this program gives me an opportunity to give back to the community in a way that will benefit not only one child but many p.

India is a country with a large number of people living in poverty. Most of these people do not earn enough to even feed their families three meals a day. Due to their situation, children part of these families must work and earn money to help their families. Keeping this in mind, the Supreme court passed the order of the Mid- day Meal program in 2001 stating that A basic entitlement of every child in every Government and Government-assisted Primary Schools with a prepared Mid-day Meal with a minimum content of 300 calories and 8–12 grams of protein each day of school for a minimum of 200 days." This initiative encouraged children to come to school and helped improve the effectiveness of primary education. These children sometimes do not get any other meals than these piping hot mid-day meals and they get immense joy by seeing something that is mundane for the rest of us.

This campaign allows me to improve the lives of numerous children and bring a smile to their faces. The “ Akshay Patra’s mid-day meal program” is a great program to ensure that the rural youth are educated and that the students are healthy.
We eat three meals a day, but these children sometimes do not even receive one. Please support this campaign so that we can better the lives of several children.