MANGALURU: MTR Foods Pvt Ltd as part of its Namma Makkalu Namma MTR programme , on Thursday partnered with the Akshay Patra Foundation to provide more than 10-lakh mid-day meals to 6000 children from 60 schools in Surathkal and Mangaluru for next 12-months. Sanjay Sharma , CEO, MTR inaugurated the third consecutive year of the programme at NITK, Surathkal with Sundeep Talwar, CMO, The Akshaya Patra Foundation.The programme was launched in 2015 to provide nutritious food to underprivileged children and partnership with Akshaya Patra Foundation helped feed nearly 2000 children in 20 schools in the first year. In 2018, the initiative was extended to a further 4000 children in the areas of Mangalore and Surathkal. In total, MTR will be sponsoring nutritious meals for more than 6000 children in 60 schools this year, noted Sanjay Sharma.It is our purpose to bring sustained and enduring change to lives of children. CSR programme is aimed at providing nutritious meals to children to ensure they stay in schools and become productive members of society. With every year of this initiative, MTR has expanded number of children reached out to – starting with 2000 in 2015 to 6000 this year, he said adding with this initiative, MTR hopes to bring about a change in lives of these children.Sundeep Talwar, said, “We deeply appreciate the contribution and support of MTR Foods in our mission to attain zero hunger and quality education. We have been relentlessly working to touch upon the lives of 50-lakh children by 2020 and partnerships such as this reaffirms our belief, he said, adding the Foundation hopes this long running association with MTR Foods motivates more organizations to come forward and support this noble cause.

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