Ep.21 Meals For Change ft. Shridhar Venkat, CEO-Akshaya Patra

India has been fighting Hunger, much before COVID, much before the Global Recession, Much Before we became REPUBLIC, much before we became INDEPENDENT. A few facts from The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World, 2020 report India is at 102 out of 117 on the Global Hunger Index. A report says, around 14% of our population is undernourished 20% of children under 5 are underweight 34.7% of children under 5 are stunted 51% of women between age 15-49 are anemic These figures talk a lot about what kind of mammoth we are dealing with. The situation we are in, these numbers are only increasing every single day. In this episode, host, Rohan Thakar speaks with Mr. Shridhar Venkat , he is the CEO of Akshaya Patra Foundation . Every year countless children drop out because their parents cannot afford education. As time passes they also deal with hunger. Akshaya Patra Foundation, since its inception, has been fighting hunger in kids and have encouraged kids to join schools through their various programmes PAN India. Several programs have initiated by them during the period of lockdowns, lets understand how they do it. You can

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Ep.21 Meals For Change ft. Shridhar Venkat, CEO-Akshaya Patra is an episode from Being The Change by Ep.Log Media.

This episode is 22:28 long.

This episode was published on Sep 18, 2020.

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