Charity begins at Home City: Mumbai

Without access to nutritious food, vulnerable populations have lowered immunity levels, which makes them susceptible to sickness. Thus, access to nutritious food is a form of preventive medicine in itself.

Hunger, rising debt and a slow slide in poverty seems to be the fate of many slum dwellers in Mumbai.

Akshaya Chaitanya is one of the best NGO in Mumbai addressing the hunger of family members of patients from low-income backgrounds in Mumbai's government hospitals, slums and municipal schools by providing nutritious food free of cost. Through their hospital feeding service, the organisation cooks food in their 8,000 sq. ft Byculla kitchen that caters to marginalised poor communities and donates food to the needy.

When you donate to charity, you not only impact the life of the receiver, you also bring about a shift in the society. Akshaya Chaitanya works relentlessly to ensure that nobody in the city of Mumbai goes to bed with an empty stomach. Children especially should not be the victims of Hunger, and to fight that, Akshaya Chaitanya runs two feeding initiatives: Bal Shiksha Ahara and Paushtik Ahara to secure the children with food so they can make most of the opportunities available.

For achieving ZERO classroom hunger, we started feeding children across municipal schools. Mrs. Hazra is a teacher at ENS Patanwala Marg school, Byculla, who shares the impact of the food donations in video below:

(Mrs. Hazra appreciates Bal Shiksha Ahara feeding program by Akshaya Chaitanya –
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You can either donate to charity online, or email Akshaya Chaitanya on [email protected] for supporting the cause of fighting hunger in the city of Mumbai. As they say, charity begins at home, for us, Mumbai is home and that is why we wish to eradicate hunger from Mumbai.