mid day meals

The students are also involved in waste management activities in the village - maintaining bamboo waste bins by the roadside.

The best part? The kids are not only earning money by selling the organic veggies and compost to the Midday Meal authorities, they are also changing their eating habits to healthier ones!

From commercial hotels that provide free lunches to Facebook groups and food banks, the entire district is trying to ensure that no one goes to sleep on a hungry stomach. Kudos to Kottayam!

It was Nehru who described India as a bundle of contradictions. On the one hand, our cities are witnessing a rapid growth in the number of slimming and fitness centres, while in rural India, approximately 3,000 children die because of malnutrition every day.

She recently took a sabbatical from being a bank manager of a leading public sector bank and has been working towards helping a group of street kids in Indirapuram in Ghaziabad.

MGR is possibly the most iconic leader in Tamil Nadu’s history. His fame was helped in great part thanks to his introduction of the Midday Nutritious Meal Scheme in the early 1980s.

The ICC World Cup 2015 was much more than just a cricketing season. Through an amazing initiative called 'ticket to cheer', thousands of people also fed a child for an entire school year!

Read how children playing on see saws ensures that there is water in the overhead tank, how one headmaster has helped children in his school save Rs. 25,000 and how children are learning the value of growing their food - all through the role played by local communities linked to schools called School Management Committees.