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  • Delta Exchange CSR powers breakfast for 27,000 Telangana school students with Rs 4 cr kitchen pledge

    Delta Exchange CSR powers breakfast for 27,000 Telangana school students with Rs 4 cr kitchen pledge

    Delta Exchange, India’s leading crypto exchange, has partnered with the Hare Krishna Movement Charitable Foundation (HKMCF) to support the Telangana Government‘s School Breakfast Programme, contributing Rs 4 crore towards a centralised kitchen in Vikarabad.

    The facility is expected to provide breakfast to about 27,000 government school students every day. The company said its Delta Exchange CSR initiative strengthens access to regular, quality meals for children across the region.

    The partnership was formalised through an MoU exchange between Chain Labs Pvt. Ltd. (Delta Exchange India) and HKMCF in the presence of Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy.

    The initiative is part of the state-wide expansion of HKMCF’s centralised kitchen model, which aims to reach about 18 lakh students across 23,106 government schools through 31 centralised mega kitchens.

    The Vikarabad kitchen will follow the model HKMCF established in Kodangal in 2024. The model is designed to prepare and distribute nutritious meals at scale while maintaining consistency in nutrition, hygiene and quality. It also allows a wider variety of breakfast options, including dosa, millet idli and puri.

    As the programme expands across the state, the initiative is expected to create 10,000 to 15,000 direct and indirect jobs.

    “Access to nutritious food is an important foundation for a child’s wellbeing and development,” said Pankaj Balani, Co-founder and CEO of Delta Exchange.

    “Through our partnership with HKMCF, we are proud to support the infrastructure needed to extend a scalable breakfast programme to thousands of government school students in Telangana,” Balani said. He added that the company sees the move as a way to contribute to immediate nutritional needs and to an initiative that can create sustained impact for children and communities over the long term.

    HKMCF, part of the ISKCON Bangalore group, has more than 13 years of experience providing meals to underserved communities. It operates more than 20 centralised community kitchens across Telangana and Andhra Pradesh and has served over 25 crore meals to date.

    The company said the partnership is part of its broader Delta Exchange CSR efforts to contribute to communities beyond its core business and support initiatives with measurable social impact.

  • AWL Agri Business strengthens mid-day meal programme with new vehicles, meal sponsorship

    AWL Agri Business strengthens mid-day meal programme with new vehicles, meal sponsorship

    AWL Agri Business Limited, one of India’s largest food and FMCG companies, said on Tuesday it has strengthened its partnership with The Akshaya Patra Foundation by donating five custom-built insulated food distribution vehicles to support the Foundation’s Mid-Day Meal Programme.

    The company has also committed to sponsoring nutritious mid-day meals for more than 41,000 children studying in government schools across Gandhinagar, it said. The initiative was marked by a vehicle flag-off ceremony held at the company’s corporate headquarters.

    The five customized insulated vehicles will enable the safe and timely delivery of freshly prepared meals to government schools across Surat, Gandhinagar, and Vadodara, strengthening the Foundation’s ability to provide nutritious meals to children every school day, the company said.

    “At AWL Agri Business, we believe that good nutrition is the foundation of a child’s health, education and future,” said Shrikant Kanhere, Managing Director & CEO, AWL Agri Business Ltd. “We are delighted to further strengthen our partnership with The Akshaya Patra Foundation through this initiative, which combines infrastructure support with direct nutritional assistance to children.”

    Sri Raya Rama Dasa, Vice President of The Akshaya Patra Foundation, Gujarat, said the vehicles and meal sponsorship would strengthen the organization’s ability to serve children more efficiently. “Together, these efforts will help us combat classroom hunger, improve school attendance and help more children to learn and thrive,” he said.

    The partnership builds on a long-standing association between the two organizations. To date, AWL Agri Business has served more than 700,000 mid-day meals to school children and provided 14 food delivery vehicles, covering more than 27,000 children across 129 schools, the company said.

    The Mid-Day Meal Programme initiative also supports Fortune SuPoshan, AWL’s flagship CSR programme addressing malnutrition and anaemia among women and children, the company said.

    AWL Agri Business Ltd., formerly known as Adani Wilmar Ltd., is one of India’s largest food and FMCG companies, with more than 80 manufacturing facilities across 11 states, including what it says is India’s largest single-location refinery, located in Mundra with a 5,000-tonne-per-day capacity. Its Fortune brand reaches more than 135 million households, the company said.