Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus Visits Akshaya Patra Hubballi Kitchen
Posted: February 16, 2016
Muhammad Yunus visited Akshaya Patra’s Hubballi Kitchen on 7 February, 2016. He was accompanied by Anousheh Ansari, Chairwoman of Prodea Systems and Gururaj Desh Deshpande of the Deshpande Foundation. The delegates were warmly greeted by Sridhar Venkat, CEO - Akshaya Patra who later on gave the delegates a tour of the entire kitchen facility.
The Akshaya Patra Foundation is a school meal program which is targeted to the children in Government Schools. This program is strategically aimed at increasing the attendance and performance of the children thereby enabling them to complete their ba...