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Counting on you to pass it on to your friends. Nominate Akshaya Patra by September 1 for a chance to WIN $1.5 million in funding from the American Express Members Project! You don't need an American Express Card to vote. The top 25 projects with the most votes move on to a second round to be voted on by a panel of judges. We only need 2500 votes worldwide to jump into the lead. SPREAD THE WORD! IT TAKE 2 MINUTES - JUST FOLLOW A FEW SIMPLE STEPS: Please visit http://www.membersproject.com/project/view/9Z58WP to cast your vote! Click on "nominate this project." Log on as an American Express card member OR sign up as a guest. If signing in as a guest, you are required to set up an account by entering your first and last name, email address, and a user password. THIS DOES NOT SIGN YOU UP FOR AN AMERICAN EXPRESS CARD. Nominate Akshaya Patra. The counter will increase by 1 Tell your friends to do the same! We thank you in advance for your time and support! About Akshaya Patra The Akshaya Patra Foundation is the largest NGO midday meal program in the world. Akshaya Patra is an organization with the vision that no child shall be deprived of education because of hunger. Now feeding over 960,000 underprivileged children in over 5,700 schools in six states in India, Akshaya Patra will reach its million children milestone fairly soon. It costs only $28 to feed a child for the entire year. Akshaya Patra is a public-private partnership that combines good management, innovative technology and smart engineering to deliver school lunch at a fraction of the cost of similar programs in other parts of the world. For many of the children this is their only complete meal for the day. This gives them an incentive to come to school, stay in school and provides them with the necessary nutrients they need to develop their cognitive abilities to focus on learning. Through kitchens specially designed by engineers to leverage technology and sourcing its food stocks from local markets, Akshaya Patra is able to reduce costs associated with transportation and food spoilage while supporting the local economy. In a short time, the foundation has grown to become the largest, and certainly most innovative, school lunch program in the world. Akshaya Patra is a great example of what a non-profit organization can achieve-- a cost effective, scalable solution with high quality service delivery. Madhu Sridhar -President The Akshaya Patra Foundation USA www.foodforeducation.org NO CHILD IN INDIA SHALL BE DEPRIVED OF EDUCATION BECAUSE OF HUNGER
