feeding a million children a day: learning from akshaya patra

Feeding a Million Children a Day: Learning from Akshaya Patra

Sumit SadanaEVP and Chief Strategy Officer, SanDiskMember, Board of Directors, Second Harvest Food Bank

• 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

Akshaya Patra

• 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

The Akshaya Patra Journey

Innovative Kitchen Design

Unique, Three-StageGravity Flow Mechanism

Highly-automated Kitchens: Hygienic, high-volume production

Rice for 1,000 students in 15 mins

40,000 flat-bread (roti) in 1 hr.

Custom-built vehicles for distribution

Imagine a world…

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

• Free food for everyone who needs it• Fresh, highly nutritious hot meals

Audacious Goal

• 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

How can we make this work?