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The Akshaya Patra Foundation is providing hot meals to families affected by the disaster in Chennai.
Since the end of October, Chennai has experienced the heaviest rains and flooding in 100 years. Over 269 people have been killed and 120,000 people have been rescued from rising floods waters. Families remain without access to basic needs such as food, shelter or sanitation.
Akshaya Patra is working to provide up to 10,000 hot, fresh meals a day to survivors of the Chennai floods, according to a press release.
Currently a team of 10-30 Akshaya Patra team members are preparing these meals from a wedding hall at a temple in Chennai. Akshaya Patra is also looking into the feasibility of building a temporary aid kitchen like that set up in Bhaktapur, Nepal, to aid survivors of the two earthquakes that hit that region in the spring.
Packaged food is also being shipped from Akshaya Patra center in Bengaluru. Akshaya Patra’s Bengaluru kitchen is one of 22 mechanized kitchen facilities that provide daily school meals to more than 1.4 million children in government schools across India.
Akshaya Patra’s founders used their own knowledge of engineering to design immense mechanized kitchen facilities capable of preparing meals for 100,000 children or more every day. It’s custom chapatti machines can bake 60,000 chapattis per hour and easy-tilt cauldrons can produce 1,200 liters of rice or sambar in just two hours.
In 2012, Akshaya Patra prepared 50,000 meals for survivors of floods in the Bhatta Basti, Shastri Nagar, and Jahawar Nagar areas of Rajasthan. Following the two earthquakes in Nepal, Akshaya Patra established in five days a temporary kitchen in Bhaktapur that prepared 10,000 meals an hour up to 100,000 meals a day to survivors of the earthquakes.
Donors in the United States can support Akshaya Patra’s Chennai Kitchen Fund at www.foodforeducation.org/campaign/chennai or by sending checks to:
Akshaya Patra USA
92 Montvale Avenue
Suite 2500
Stoneham, MA 02180.
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great job a million thanks to Akshyapatra foundation for service to the world community