Aikya Volunteers Join Hands to help people in Corona Crisis
Akshaya Patra Thanks AIKYA Volunteers and HITEX for their Support in COVID-19 Food Relief Packaging Their support helped Akshaya Patra distribute over 1,00,000 ‘Essential Grocery’ kits (amounting to 42,00,000 meal servings) to people from vulnerable communities affected by the lockdown, across Telangana. Hyderabad - June 16, 2020 — The Akshaya Patra Foundation thanked AIKYA volunteers for packing essential grocery kits to be distributed to people from vulnerable communities and HITEX for supporting this undertaking by offering their Convention and Exhibition Center. As part of this endeavor, AIKYA (United to Serve) - the youth volunteer wing of the Akshaya Patra, had over 130 volunteers packing the relief kits with various items including rice, condiments, sugar, potatoes, tamarind, oil, sambar powder, turmeric powder, and mirchi/chilli powder. “The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in India have been far-reaching, creating a tremendous need,” said Sri. T.G. Srik