Akshaya Patra’s Response - COVID-19 Disaster Relief TAPF Background: The Akshaya Patra Foundation is a for-impact organization headquartered in Bengaluru, India. The organization strives to fight issues like hunger and malnutrition in India by implementing the Mid-Day Meal Scheme in the Government schools and Government aided schools. Today, Akshaya Patra is the world’s largest (not-for-profit run) mid-day meal programme serving wholesome food to over 1.8 million children enrolled in 19,257 schools from its 55 centralised kitchens across 12 states and 2 Union Territories in India. Besides providing unlimited, hot nutritious mid-day meals to the children going to Govt schools, Akshaya Patra has always actively involved in disaster relief services by providing food to affected people. Some of the relief activities done in the recent past was providing free cooked meals to the cyclone affected people in 130 locations near Bhubaneshwar, Odisha in May 2019. Approx. 15,000 flood affected people were provided free meals for almost 2 months and free books, bags and stationary items were distributed to the children in the 2 majorly affected districts in Kerala in August 2018. Similar relief work was carried out in flood and earthquake affected regions in Gorakhpur, Chennai, Gujarat and Nepal during the period 2015-17. Akshaya Patra’s proposed intervention for Covid-19 Disaster Relief: The Covid-19 outbreak which started in China has now spread across the globe which has led to a major health crisis affecting the lives of millions of people and has resulted in an economic slowdown. India, the 2nd largest populated country in the world is currently at a very high risk and the government is taking all the necessary steps to fight the Covid Pandemic. The Indian government recently has announced a complete lockdown and people have been forced to remain indoors during the pandemic. Due to this, the worst affected are the millions of daily wagers and other labourers who are out of their jobs and are struggling day in and day out to feed their families and themselves. In response to the current Covid-19 situation in India, Akshaya Patra has started relief work intervention in Karnataka, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, New Delhi, Daman by providing free meals to homeless shelters, daily wage earners and other underprivileged beneficiaries in coordination with the local district administration. The meal preparation is taken care by Akshaya Patra where the food is prepared at the Akshaya Patra centralised kitchens and the distribution is being managed by the District Administration at Aanganwadi centres/ slum areas/schools/night-shelters. While we are facing challenges with respect to limited staff, we are gearing up to add more locations and scale up our efforts in the existing locations in the coming day. Migrant labour immigration across India: There has been a huge upsurge in the movement of migrant labourers from big cities to their hometowns in the light of the Covid-19 outbreak. With factories shut, these workers are left without no pay and no provisions for food. Hence, they are returning to native villages in big numbers. Most of these labourers are from Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan. Akshaya Patra, along with the respective District Authorities, are making sure that the public feeding programme is up and running in these locations so that the labourers are not left without food. Here’s a summary of our current on-ground efforts to fight the situation. Daily Projected number of Feeding State Details of beneficiaries meals (as on (by 3 28 Mar’20) Apr’20) To field workers, needy public at old age homes, night 25,000 50,000 Rajasthan shelters, general public feeding points, and designated meals/day meals/day slums/localities across Jaipur, Ajmer, and Bhilwara. To poor marginalized population via food distribution Gujarat, 60,000 1,00,000 centres at night shelters and old age homes in D&D meals/day meals/day Ahmedabad, Bhavnagar, Surat and Silvassa Migrant labourers and weaker sections of society from 5,000 50,000 Delhi food distribution centres set up at State Government meals/day meals/day schools. Uttar 15,000 25,000 Poor & daily wage earners in Lucknow, Vrindavan and Pradesh meals/day meals/day Gorakhpur. Distribution of dry ration packets for monthly supplies 1,500 3,000 across select neighbourhoods in Bengaluru. Refer to Karnataka boxes/day boxes/day annexure-II for locations shared by BBMP for circulation in Phase-1 Distribution to daily wage labourers and construction 20,000 50,000 Haryana site workers in Gurgaon and Manesar with distribution meals/day meals/day partner as DLF Foundation. Dry Ration Kits being packed and distributed in Bengaluru Bangalore Food Relief Kit / Head - 21 Day Sl no Ingredients Qty Per Kit Cost/Kg Total Cost 1 Rice 5 36 180 2 Toor Dal 1 74 74 3 Lobo/ Channa 0.25 68 17 4 Refined Sunflower Oil 0.2 100 20 5 Rasam Powder 0.2 200 40 6 Sambar Powder 0.2 180 36 7 Turmeric Powder 0.1 150 15 8 Chili Powder 0.1 180 18 9 Salt & Pickle 0.2 80 16 10 Sugar 1 43 43 11 Wheat flour 1 43 46 12 Potato 2 30 60 13 Mangalore Cucumber 2 30 60 14 Ginger 0.2 100 20 Total RM (13.45 Kgs) 645 Packing Material 10 Packing Manpower 10 Transportation 10 *Fluctuations due to current situation 75 Total Kit Cost 750 Since Procurement of Raw Material may become an issue due to various reasons such as stock and demand Night feeding in homeless shelters in Ahmedabad Free meals distributed to daily wage earners in Vrindavan Rajasthan Govt. Directive and Akshaya Patra’s feeding ackowledgmenet in local newspaper Safety Measures by Distribution Team Sponsorship for public feeding program - We are soliciting support for an intervention aimed at providing free meals to the under privileged people who have been affected severely due to the prevailing world-wide covid-19 situation. The meal provided is a simple 2 item menu like Rice with Daal or Khichdi with Subji Cost of serving a meal per person- Rs. 20/- Important points to note: 1. Fund Utilization will be provided basis location-wise count of meals served via grant from donor. 2. In locations where any form of govt. subsidy is coming in, the cost accrued to donor will be Rs. 20 minus the govt. subsidy. 3. With requests coming in from multiple state governments and depending on availability of manpower, funds and raw materials, we intend to scale up our operations 2-3 times over in the next few days. 4. An in-principle commitment of the sponsorship request would give Akshaya Patra’s finance team visibility to plan our operations ahead. 5. The committed amount can be disbursed in tranches basis the utilization trend. 6. We will keep our you informed of the new locations as and when we receive permissions. 7. The last mile delivery and distribution to identified beneficiaries is being taken care of by the District Authorities. 8. Akshaya Patra will ensure maximum possible visibility of our partner brands via banners at feeding locations, social media mentions 9. 80G certificate shall be provided and this activity can be covered under point (XII) Disaster Management of Schedule V Annexure I – Government Directives ANNEXURE-II - Bangalore Locations for Food Distribution: Phase-1 Sl No. Prog Name of the Community No of Family Units Address Google Location 1 UUPP Thimappa Reddy Layout Near Meenakshi Mahal, 12.881644, 77.594023 Bannerghatta Main Road, 29 Thimmappareddy Layout, Syndicate Bank Colony, Hulimavu, Bengaluru 2 UUPP Gollahalli Veerasandra, Gollahalli Main 13.032401, 77.643687 19 Road, Veersandra Electronic City, Bengaluru 3 UUPP Vijaya Bank layout 9th Main Road, Kuttappa Garden, 12.895817, 77.609753 26 Mulki Sundar Ram Shetty Nagar, Bilekahalli, Bengaluru 4 UUPP Harlur Dinne Near Masjid-E-Usman Ghani, 12.901761, 77.660448 43 Dinne Anajaneya Swamy Temple Road, Harlur, Bengaluru 5 UUPP Vinayaka Badavane Shree Hanuman Stores, 10th Cross 12.946308, 77.519098 30 Road, Vinayaka Layout, Nayandahalli. 6 UUPP Pramoda Layout Stalwart International School, 12.934575, 77.538000 Near KEB Power house, 33 Veerabhadra Nagar, PES University Main Road, Hosakerehalli, BSK-3rd Stage. 7 UUPP Nayandahalli ITI Layout, Chndra Layout Park, 12.946855, 77.520126 55 Vinayaka Extension, Nayandahalli. 8 UUPP HSR Layout 19th Cross, 3rd Sector, Near BDA 12.919244, 77.645607 11 Complex, HSR Layout, Bengaluru 9 UUPP Veersandra Near Muneshwara Temple, 12.836079, 77.674139 Veersandra Main Road, 19 Veerasandra, Electronic City, Bengaluru. 10 UUPP Junnasandra Maruthi Garden Layout, Sarjapura 12.907661, 77.685368 29 Main Road, Rainbow Drive, Junnasandra, Bengaluru. 11 UUPP Nallurahalli Near Andhra Bank, Borewell Rd, 12.969280, 77.735745 53 Nallurhalli, Whitefield. 12 UUPP Immadihalli Near Sekar Hyde Apartment, 12.967166, 77.764327 85 Dharmaraya Temple, Immadihalli Rd. Immadihalli. 13 UUPP Nagaraja Colony Beside Govt. PHC, Opp. Ashapura 12.967731, 77.759792 20 Medicals, Immadihalli PHC, Immadihalli Rd, Whitefield 14 UUPP Nagondanahalli Extn Behind Saroj Symphony 12.970297, 77.769125 32 Apartment, Immadihalli Road, Nagondanahalli. 15 UUPP Manjunatha Layout Sri Prasanna Hanuman Temple, 12.953463, 77.693477 30 Manjunatha Layout, Marathahalli. 16 UUPP Navodya Layout Manikanta Bakery, Navodya 12.951570, 77.693861 25 Layout, Manjunatha Layout, Marathahalli 17 UUPP RCH Basaveshwara-IV PCM Store, Sri Anjaneya Swamy 13.058195, 77.623691 33 Temple, Thanisandra Main Road, Rachenahalli. 18 UUPP Peenya Rajanna Circle I & II 13.034180, 77.527527 Leggere Rd, Yeshwanthpur Suburb 25 II Stage, Peenya 1st Stage, Peenya, Bengaluru, Karnataka