Hi Friends, Please spend 2 minutes and vote for this project. It'll be definitely great help to the project and ourselves. Thank you.
Regards, Santhosh On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 5:06 PM, ulprasanthi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Got the following as a mail forward: > > 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 > > > >
