Mid-day Meal Makes This New Year a Happy One for a Child!

New Year 2017 is around the corner! Let’s begin the celebrations by thanking 2016 for all that we achieved, for the new learning and many experiences! New Year is not just a festival but it’s a whole year of hope for new things. Just after the celebration of birth of Jesus Christ who brought so much hope who came at a time when humanity needed a saviour, a whole new year begins. Interestingly, Christmas and New Year brings a lot of cheer for those in need as well.

This New Year, you can make a difference in the lives of the children who need it the most.  Akshaya Patra is an NGO for Children that feed mid-day meals and also encouraging the children to come to school. The organisation functions solely on donation and hence urges you to donate in honour of someone so that literacy increases and undernourishment gets rooted out at a faster rate of time. Akshaya Patra wishes to make New Year for children a great way to celebrate life, nourishment and education.

Needless to say, New Year is the best time to donate some of what you receive during the holiday season.

Your donation feeds the hungry

By feeding children, mid-day meal benefits their family and their overall health. Your donation will not only help Akshaya Patra in accomplishing its mission of serving 5 million children by 2020 but also promote its several other initiatives such as providing disaster relief, running feeding programmes in old-age homes, organising health check-up camps whenever and wherever required, implementing scholarship programmes etc. The NGO engages in providing Food for Education in an extremely methodical way. You see, there are so many ways for you to give back to society and help in the growth of these initiatives that aim at creating a better future for all of us.

The Akshaya Patra Foundation is registered under section 35AC of the Income Tax Act, 1961. Therefore every donation above Rs 500 made to this NGO is eligible to a 100% tax exemption under section 80GGA. So, by raising charity for underprivileged children, you let your pile of good deeds grow by securing a better future for kids.  Thus, it’s like investing in something that pays you through tax deductible donations.

Gift children a chance

Children start to dream about what they want to become upon growing up. Now, what happens when they cannot even make it to school because of the economic status of their families? They don’t get a fair chance that they deserve, to learn and prove their talents. And then, this cycle continues for generations because financial stability cannot find a way without the base of good education. Somewhere, this cycle needs to be broken because plucking a bud before it blooms can never reveal the beauty that the flower beholds. And we, being competent can only help them by raising charity for them and giving them a chance to pursue their dreams.

What is the ultimate purpose of welcome a New Year? To give back and try to live out the hope that it offers. This New Year, help the helpless and remember there’s no greater happiness than giving someone a reason to smile.

Donate a Happy New Year to a child!