Covid 19 Healing India with Food
TAPF (The Akshaya Patra Foundation) Switzerland founded in April 2020 is a not-for-profit association based in Baden. TAPF Switzerland’s vision is to share and support TAPF India’s mission of ensuring that no child in India is deprived of education because of hunger. To help realize this vision, TAPF Switzerland is committed to providing hot, nutritious and freshly cooked meals to underprivileged school children in India and providing education to children by keeping them in schools and thus breaking the cycle of poverty. The mission of TAPF Switzerland is to raise funds to help eradicate hunger in children in India, build the TAPF brand experience and grow the volunteer network across Switzerland.
TAPF runs the world’s largest school meals charity, serving over 1.8 million children in India daily. The foundation started its operations in the year 2000, by serving 1500 school children and over the past 2 decades has served more than 3 billion meals, supplied from its 57 kitchens in over 19,000 government schools, across 12 states & 2 union territories in India. Built on a Public-Private Partnership model, TAPF has an outstanding track record of combining innovation, science and systems creating unprecedented social impact.
As per an India Today report, the pandemic has left 120 million people jobless and an estimated 100 million people will be pushed under the poverty level (earning less than $1.25 per day). The aftermath of the crisis may last over 18 months.
A survey of the vulnerable sections, mostly from the unorganized sector, shows a significant number of people earn an income of less than $125 per month. During the pandemic, 67% of workers from the unorganized sector lost their livelihood due to the lockdown.
As per the Azim Premji University COVID19 livelihoods survey, 74% of these households are consuming less food than they were before the lockdown. As per the R&A report 54% of the families had absolutely no income during the lockdown.
Unprecedented economic impact of the pandemic and continued lockdown is pushing the vulnerable towards a health led poverty trap.
We need your generosity and financial support to reach and beat our goal of Fr.45000 during the month-long campaign.
Thank you in advance for your generosity and help for this very needy cause.