Annamrita: ISKCON FOOD RELIEF FOUNDATION is a registered NGO conducting a strategic program to liberate the underprivileged children from the scourge of hunger and malnutrition and an education to go with it. Recently one such effort is done in Kolkata and presently we feeding to more than 5000 underprivileged children all over Kolkata from our kitchen at Bagbazar. The genesis of ISKCON Food Relie
f Foundation’s purpose dates back to 1974, when Srila Prabhupada was looking out from his room at an ISKCON temple in Mayapura (West Bengal). He noticed a group of village children fighting with street dogs over scraps of food. Shocked and saddened by what he saw, Srila Prabhupada turned to his disciples and said, “No one within a ten mile radius of our temples should go hungry”. When the Government of India launched a strategic program in 1994 called the Midday Meal Scheme to fight two of the most pressing problems of India – hunger and illiteracy, ISKCON Food Relief Foundation saw a great opportunity for providing children with the right nutrition to support their education. The Midday Meal Project is being implemented by ISKCON Food Relief Foundation under the name of ‘annamrita’ meaning food as pure as nectar.
