Millers for Nutrition, Fortify Health, and The Akshaya Patra Foundation Unite to Improve Nutrition in India

Millers for Nutrition, a coalition of key meals fortification stakeholders devoted to serving to millers beef up staple meals, is proud to announce a partnership with Fortify Health and The Akshaya Patra Foundation, an enforcing spouse of the PM POSHAN program, to offer fortified wheat flour to 3416 faculties in Gujarat. The flour will probably be used to make foods for over 400,000 youngsters.

 

Millers for Nutrition, Fortify Health, and The Akshaya Patra Foundation sign up for palms in combination for nutritious foods

 

As a part of this initiative, millers together with Century Industries (Ahmedabad), Shakti Food Industries (Bhuj), Achyut Cereals & Pulses (Jamnagar), Shreeji Food Products (Vadodara), Momai Traders (Bhavnagar), and Giriraj Food Product (Surat) will jointly provide about 350 metric heaps of fortified wheat flour each and every month to Akshaya Patra’s centralized kitchens in those towns, making sure a gradual and nutritious meals provide for college kids. 

“Millers for Nutrition is proud to partner with Fortify Health and The Akshaya Patra Foundation to enhance nutrition in India,” stated Monojit Indra, Senior Practice Lead, TechnoServe. “Together, we can make a meaningful impact on the health and well-being of millions of children across the country.”

Over the previous 12 months, Millers for Nutrition, in collaboration with Fortify Health, The Akshaya Patra Foundation, and the Gujarat Roller Flour Millers Association, has performed fortification trainings in Gujarat to lend a hand millers produce fine quality fortified wheat flour. Demonstrating a win-win-win, the initiative has effectively scaled up wheat flour fortification, enhanced youngsters’s vitamin, and supported miller companies.

Sri Bharatarshabha Dasa, Trustee and National President at The Akshaya Patra Foundation, stated, “We at The Akshaya Patra Foundation are honored to collaborate with Millers for Nutrition and Fortify Health in this transformative initiative. By integrating fortified wheat flour into the meals of over 400,000 children in Gujarat, we are not just addressing nutritional needs but are actively contributing to a brighter, healthier future for the next generation. This partnership stands as a testament to the power of collaborative effort in making substantial health improvements across communities. Together, we are setting a remarkable precedent for nutritional welfare in India.”

 

Tony Senanayake, CEO at Fortify Health, stated, “Fortify Health is proud to collaborate with The Akshay Patra Foundation leading the way in institutional nutrition across Gujarat. They are delivering high-quality, iron-fortified chakki atta through six central kitchens, reaching over 4 lakh vulnerable individuals, including school children under PM-Poshan. This partnership demonstrates how simple, scalable interventions can effectively improve public health and nutrition outcomes in a state with a high anaemia burden.”

About The Akshaya Patra Foundation

The Akshaya Patra Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation which strives to deal with lecture room starvation and malnutrition in India. As the enforcing spouse of the Government of India’s PM POSHAN Abhiyaan (Mid-Day Meal Scheme), the Foundation supplies scorching, nutritious and engaging mid-day foods to youngsters in authorities and government-aided faculties on a daily basis to give a boost to their vitamin and schooling.

In partnership with the Government of India, more than a few state governments and UT administrations, and the inestimable give a boost to of many philanthropic donors and well-wishers, the Foundation has grown from humble beginnings serving simply 1,500 faculty youngsters throughout 5 faculties to turning into one of the most greatest (not-for-profit run) faculty feeding programme on the planet, serving healthy meals to over 2.25 million youngsters from 23,000+ faculties throughout 17 States and 3 Union Territories in India.

Akshaya Patra incessantly forges partnerships and leverages generation to cater to thousands and thousands of youngsters and has served over 4 billion foods since 2000. The momentous milestone was once honored at a distinct tournament on the UN headquarters in New York on 2 April 2024.

For extra main points, please go browsing www.akshayapatra.org.

About Fortify Health

Fortify Health has a imaginative and prescient for a more fit global the place everybody has the micronutrients they want to live on and thrive. We paintings towards this via enabling get admission to to micronutrient-rich wheat flour to cut back and save you iron deficiency anaemia. We are actually energetic in 14 states/Usaacross India, operating with 150 turbines throughout India to achieve greater than 7 million beneficiaries. 

Fortify Health supplies technical give a boost to to governments and NGOs to combine wheat flour fortification into more than a few techniques such because the Andhra Pradesh State Civil Supplies Corporation Limited, Punjab Development Corporation, The Akshaya Patra Foundation and Touchstone Foundation.

Fortify Health operates via 3 paintings streams.

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  Open Market Support: We give a boost to millers to cost-neutrally beef up chakki atta within the open marketplace.

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  Partnership Support: We paintings with governments, quasi-government and non-government organisations in India to mainstream wheat flour fortification via social protection internet techniques.

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  Evidence Generation: We behavior tracking and analysis of actions to tell the general public concerning the worth of meals fortification.

For extra main points, please go browsing www.fortifyhealth.world.

 

About Millers for Nutrition

Millers for Nutrition is supported via Strategic Fortification Partners: BASF, BioAnalyt, Bühler, dsm-firmenich, Mühlenchemie, SternVitamin; Regional Strategic Fortification Partners: Hexagon Nutrition, Piramal, Sanku; and a rising team of native technical companions that proportion a not unusual imaginative and prescient of bettering meals processing practices and fortification excellence to profit society and support industry sustainability. Millers for Nutrition is powered via TechnoServe with investment give a boost to from the Gates Foundation.

Millers, meals fortification stakeholders, and others involved in becoming a member of the coalition can be told extra at millersfornutrition.com.