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09 August, 2019, Bengaluru: AIKYA, the volunteering arm of The Akshaya Patra Foundation, collaborated with PES University to organise community engagement activities during ‘PES Bootstrap 2019’. Through this event, AIKYA sought to foster a sense of community awareness and responsibility among the students. It is an annual event to welcome newly joined students. ‘Bootstrap’ seeks to engage groups of students to accomplish practical tasks, thus inculcating in them, a realistic approach to problem-solving and helping them get well versed with the skills to be acquired as an engineer. The event was held in Bengaluru from the 5th to 9th August, 2019.
Over 250 students from PESU participated in the community engagement programme. The participating students volunteered at Akshaya Patra kitchens and beneficiary schools in the city for activities such as medicinal gardening, school painting, and art and craft activities. Besides these activities, volunteering students also conducted awareness drives on topics such as nutrition, health, hygiene, etc.
AIKYA invests in the youth to help them grow into effective social leaders of society and tap into the power of youth to contribute towards the development of the nation. Through the community engagement at ‘Bootstrap 2019’, AIKYA sought to foster a sense of community awareness and responsibility among the students.
About AIKYA
AIKYA – is a non-profit youth organisation which is involved in community service and building social leaders. We inspire values of selfless service, leadership, and community development in the youth through various initiatives and focus on training young adults as leaders to improve communities.
Through our social enterprise programmes, we invest in the youth, who show potential to grow into effective and humane leaders of society, who will be committed to addressing some of today’s greatest social challenges and will deliver sustainable social impact. We believe training leaders is the most effective strategy to solve complex social problems and achieve meaningful results in community development. Through our large base of about 30,000 volunteers, we carry out different developmental activities in fields like school education, environment, cleanliness and hygiene, and community development.
For more details, please log on: www.aikyayouth.org
About The Akshaya Patra Foundation
The Akshaya Patra Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation headquartered in Bengaluru, India, which strives to address issues like hunger and malnutrition in the country. By implementing the Mid-Day Meal Scheme in Government and Government-aided schools, Akshaya Patra aims to fight hunger and at the same time, bring children to school. Since 2000, Akshaya Patra has worked towards reaching out to children with wholesome food on every single school day. The Foundation is continuously leveraging technology to cater to millions of children. Its state-of-the-art kitchens have become a subject of study and attract curious visitors from around the world.
In partnership with the Government of India and various State Governments, and the inestimable support of many philanthropic donors and well-wishers, Akshaya Patra has grown from humble beginnings serving just 1,500 school children across five schools to becoming the world’s largest (not-for-profit run) mid-day meal programme, serving wholesome food to over 1.76 million children from 15,668 schools across 12 states in India.
For more details, please log on: https://www.akshayapatra.org/
