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Feeding a Million Children a Day: Learning from Akshaya Patra

Feeding a Million Children a Day: Learning from Akshaya Patra. Sumit Sadana EVP and Chief Strategy Officer, SanDisk Member, Board of Directors, Second Harvest Food Bank. Akshaya Patra. Vision: No child will be deprived of an education due to hunger Largest youth-focused NGO in the world

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Feeding a Million Children a Day: Learning from Akshaya Patra

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  1. Feeding a Million Children a Day: Learning from Akshaya Patra Sumit Sadana EVP and Chief Strategy Officer, SanDisk Member, Board of Directors, Second Harvest Food Bank

  2. Akshaya Patra • Vision: No child will be deprived of an education due to hunger • Largest youth-focused NGO in the world • Serving fresh, hot meals to 1.3 million children/day • Started with 1500 children in 2000 • Goal: Serve 5 million children by 2020

  3. The Akshaya Patra Journey • Large purpose-built, innovative kitchens • Strong distribution system • State and Federal partnership • Public and Corporate support • Culture • Strong, transparent governance • Innovative culture focused on continuous improvement • Service orientation

  4. Innovative Kitchen Design

  5. Unique, Three-StageGravity Flow Mechanism

  6. Highly-automated Kitchens: Hygienic, high-volume production 40,000 flat-bread (roti) in 1 hr. Rice for 1,000 students in 15 mins

  7. Custom-built vehicles for distribution

  8. Imagine a world…

  9. Food in America: A Social Crisis in the Making… • Cheap • Calorie-dense, addictive • Easily accessible • Little/no preparation needed High correlation between poverty/food insecurity and health problems like obesity, diabetes

  10. Audacious Goal • Free food for everyone who needs it • Fresh, highly nutritious hot meals

  11. How can we make this work? • Large purpose-built, innovative kitchens • Partnership with SHFB for low-cost produce • State and Federal partnership: redirect subsidies • Distribution and Logistics Innovations • Community and Corporate support

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