Aishwarya Rai Bachchan to Feed 1,000 Kids for a Year Through ISKCON’s Meal Scheme.
On the occasion of her 44th birthday, Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, on Monday donated free meals to 1000 children for a year under the Mid-day meal scheme of Annamrita Foundation set up by International Society of Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON).
An official statement issued by ISKCON said that Radhanath Swami Maharaj, ISKCON spiritual leader said the Annamrita Scheme, which started in 2004 from a small room with meals being prepared for just 900 children, today serve meals to 12 lakh children across seven states in India.
Through 20 hi-tech ISO 22000-2005 certified kitchens, Annamrita reaches out to nearly 500 municipal schools in and around Mumbai along with over 2000 schools in Maharashtra with heavy nutritious meals.
Swamiji added, ‘My Guru Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada had once seen a dog and a child trying to pick up the food packet in the street garbage bin, he was taken aback by
this incident and had instructed the devotees of ISKCON that no child in 10 miles radius of ISKCON temple should sleep hungry.
‘Following the instruction of our Gurudev, we have been distributing Krishna’s Prasad in the form of Khichdi to all the poor around our temple and from 13 years we are reaching out to feed more and more children through our Annamrita project.’