Impact of classroom hunger and how to eliminate it

Hello friends,

Every day we are searching for lunchbox recipes in the internet to give tasty and healthy meal for our school going kids. We are also sending snacks box, juices and or milk to them. Nowadays, schools are insisting to bring only healthy food items and they put a ban for non healthy junk items. We make sure that we are adding enough nutrients in their lunch and snack boxes. We are choosing apple, pomegranate, grapes and other fruits to pack for snacks box and to make juices.

This is happening in one side of India. Do you know about the other darker side? Every day millions of children are forced to choose between education and hunger.

Impact of Classroom hunger:

Parents stop their kids from going to school and ask them to go for a job.  Kids who are suffering from classroom hunger also agree to the decision of the parents. The primary need of anyone in this world is food. When the kids are not able to get it, they choose job over education. There are millions of children who quit their education quite early because of classroom hunger.

Shall we ever think how we can eliminate class room hunger?

How to eliminate class room hunger?

There are lot of options available to eliminate class room hunger.

1. Sponsor a poor child you know  who is struggling for food and offer him or her meal every day.
2. Join a genuine foundation. You can sponsor for the food through them. But make sure you are helping through a genuine foundation and your money will not get wasted. You have to keep in mind that there are lot of groups calling them as foundation but cheating the people. So, please make sure to verify the foundation before you sponsor. Akshayapatra is one such foundation which is a trusted one.
3. Approach a village and find a poor child to feed.
4. Approach schools in village and ask them to suggest the kids who struggle for food.
5. Start sponsoring and ask your friends to contribute for this noble cause.

Class room hunger is one of the social issue which has not yet been eliminated from India. Hope we all put our best effort to eliminate it and help the children to focus on their education. When children can learn without worrying about hunger, they can concentrate on their studies. India will develop a lot.
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