ISKCON Food Relief Foundation

Hunger and Education share a proportional relationship. Education resolves the problem of hunger in the long run. The objective of our service is to provide meals to the government school children and to eradicate the vicious cycle altogether. Children cannot study if they do not get proper meals. Dr J. Larry Brown, Tufts University, has described this issue as follows:

"By subjecting children to hunger, we rob them of their God-given potential. We then deliver them to the schools with one arm tied behind their backs and expect teachers to perform an often-impossible task. This, in turn, results in the waste of billions of dollars we invest in the education of our children because hunger prevents them from getting full value of their educational experience."

As per the medical industry, between the age group of 6 and 12 years, major cognitive developments take place. Due to hunger and malnutrition, cognitive developments get impaired, thus, affecting the entire life. Around six million children of India are the victim of mild mental retardation because of the malnutrition and hunger. Hence, to prevent this, we have started this program so that every child gets proper meals and we can secure the future of the country.

The right amount of nutrition in the body is very essential for the healthy growth of the child. The Nutrition And Learning Studies have brought out this fact and hence we know that this is a very crucial issue. It has been observed that major children population suffer from iron deficiency. Due to this iron deficiency, a child can lose his IQ level in later part of the life. Hence, anemic children also perform poorly in vocabulary, reading,and other tests (Parker, 1989). Realizing the same, we provide meals that are rich in iron and other nutrients. Amongst the fourth grade students in the US, students who took poor protein diet performed poorly (ASFSA, 1989). Morning fasting has a very poor impact on the health of the children. Hence, we initiated this NGO to children who do not get to eat even once a day.