Program · Annadan
Mid-day Meals —nutrition as justice.
730,000+ meals shared. Cooked by mothers. Paid by the program.
Annadan is the school-day meal program. Mothers from the community cook twice a week at partner schools in Sipapokhare Ward 7 and Bhimtar Ward 12, using vegetables grown in the school garden and from members of the women's self-help groups. The meal is not charity — it is what care looks like when it is funded and protected.
Why this program
Hunger isn't a missing meal — it's a missing chair.
A child without a meal at school is a child without focus, without retention, and — across the school year — without a future their families can hold onto. For Dalit and Janajati families in Indrawati, this is not a metaphor.
The Annadan formalises what mothers have always done. We pay for ingredients, fuel, and an honorarium to the cooks — who are themselves members of the savings groups we work with. It is one program that feeds children, dignifies women's labour, and circulates rupees inside the village.
730k+
Meals shared
2×
Per week, per school
100%
Cooked by local mothers
Your gift in action
NPR 2,000 = 3 students fed for a month.
The math is simple and we publish it openly: ingredients, fuel, cook honoraria. No overheads buried in the per-meal line.