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Akshaya Patra USA will hold its first virtual gala of 2021, Partnerships for Happiness, on Saturday, April 24, 5:30 p.m. EDT / 2:30 p.m. PDT to raise funds for hunger relief to migrant families and the mid-day meal beneficiaries in India. The event hosts are the Boston, Buffalo, Grand Rapids, Atlanta, Washington D.C., Maryland, and Virginia chapters.
“The purest form of happiness is a child’s smile. It is what motivates us (at Akshaya Patra) to continue to provide nutritious, hot meals to our beneficiaries, so they are not deprived of an education and smile knowing they each have a bright future ahead.” Said Vandana Tilak, CEO of Akshaya Patra. “It is thanks to our supporters, donors, corporate sponsors, and partners that we can come together and make this happen.”
Moderating the event will be the astute business leader, Milind Pant, CEO of Amway; he will have a fireside chat with the brilliant Sonu Sood, Bollywood actor and humanitarian. Later, world-renowned Dr. Deepak Chopra, Founder of the Chopra Center for Wellbeing, will be speaking on the ‘Nature of Reality - Metahuman.’ There will be musical performances by the talented singer and songwriter Abby V and beautiful multifaceted dancer Vinaini Jayasinghe throughout the event.
Over 1,000 professionals, nonprofits, government officials, and philanthropic leaders will be in attendance to celebrate our beneficiaries, volunteers, and chapter teams. Mark your calendars and
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!Partnerships for Happiness Event Sponsors | |
Jaishree & Desh Deshpande | Sanya & Hetal Shah |
Rajiv Jain | Ashoo & Rajeev Jain |
Jit & Sonia Saxena | Samantha Ganglani |
Satya Tiwari | Nidhi Singhal |
Satish Gupta | Rama Neti |
Bala Bahl | Bela Chandhok & Dr. Vinay Kumar |
Susan & Nagendra Raina | Ramika & Bhupen Shah |
Dr. Neeru Oberoi & Mr. Arun Oberoi | Jag Bhawan |
Atul & Ajita Bhat | Dr. Raman & Dr. Ritu Sood |
Amrita & Milind Pant | Meena & Raj Rajgopal |
Helen Hunt Bouscaren | Renu & Kedar Gupta |
Motwani Jadeja Foundation | Ravi Ika |
Juhi Dhawan | Rahul Vinod |
Srilekha Tiruvuri | Santhosh Sankigatta Devakumar |
Bipin Patel | Vamsi Vangala |
Pratima & Venkat Srinivasan | John Boselli |
Venkat Kolluri | Lakshmi Paladugu |
Meena Mehta | Chandrakala Chinna |
Vinita Rampuria | Niraj Bhagwat |
Sanjeev & Girija Verma | Srikant Poruri |
Dhananjaya & Kathleen Rao | Sukanya Yeminedi |
Yaman & Samantha Sharma | Sireesha Gorla |
Ravikanth & Malini Rayadurgam | Snehal Desai |
Lalit Sudan & Suzanne Sudan | Hemang Pandya |
Sushil Tuli | Krishnan Chandrasekhar |
Dr. Raja & Sirisha Cheruvu | Sany & Maria Chavan |
Shoba & Naga Donti | Vishweshwar Patlolla |
Adish & Asha Jain | Longmeadow Rotary |
Rohit Mareddy | Anjaneya Gunnamreddy |
Ranganath & Sawali Sudarshan | Jeetendra Naidu |
Anand & Sumana Rao | Dr. Shanti Bedmutha |
Anu & Rama Chitrapu | Bijoo George |
Jyoti & Sandip Kapoor | Surya Kiran |
Sudheer Kommanavancha | Sanjay Jaiman |
Vidya Murthy | Prasad Gullapalli |
Megha Joshi | Hari Ganapathy |
Brian & Sunita Pereira | Biswajit Sahoo |
Apurv & Anupama Gupta | Chava Madhu |
Suraj Kapur | Vijeendra Archak |
Kulture Khazana | Vishal Mishra |
Ameeta & Anjan Mehta | Vinay Vittal |
Namrata Anand | Mukti Parupudi |
Yash & Jigna Shah | Avinash, Amita, Priya & Chetan Shukla |
Hetal Shah | Rakesh, Deval & Poonam Kamdar |
Enterprise Bank | Chandu & Eshani Shah |
Ganesh & Uma Kaundinya | Ravi & Rohini Sakhuja |
Sona & Sunand Menon | Dr. Anand Kanjolia |
Shanna O'Reilly | Ramesh & Susan Kapur |
Vikesh & Kiran Mahendroo |
About Akshaya PatraEstablished in 2000, Akshaya Patra is the world’s largest NGO school meal program, providing hot, nutritious school lunches to over 1.8 million children in over 19,257 schools through 57 kitchens in 12 states and two Union Territories in India. It costs only $20 to feed a child for an entire school year. Since the COVID-19 lockdown began on March 24th, Akshaya Patra has served more than 121 million meals to migrant workers and our beneficiaries and their families.
Contact DetailsAkshaya Patra Foundation USA
Ankita Narula
+1 781-438-3090
Company Websitehttps://wwww.foodforeducation.org
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